Roasting nice white liberals is a time-honored theatrical pastime. Trim away the artifice of their smug posturing and they’re predictably stuffed with a medley of ignorance, hypocrisy and narcissis…
,” which opened tonight at the Helen Hayes Theater on Broadway, would seem especially primed to be skewered: Not only are they fluent in liberal-ese, but they’re also theater people.
That Carden’s blissfully simple-minded pin-up turns out to be white is the catalyst for their creative crisis. Now who’s going to speak authentically for Native Americans? The laughs in director Rachel Chavkin’s production are largely thanks to the chops of its game and agile cast. Carden steals several scenes just by finding absurd ways to consume rehearsal snacks, taking a dozen bites of a single grape like a chipmunk Jessica Rabbit. And Sullivan’s face is as animated as a cartoon cat’s. But there’s a pronounced lag underlying the script’s punchlines.
There is an alarming rise in hand-wringing over what’s being taught in American classrooms, but not from the inferred PC police that keeps this troupe on their toes. One could almost be nostalgic for when that was the case and not the reverse: Parents, administrators and legislators are successfully calling for bans on the discussion and teaching of racism, sexuality and gender diversity from kindergarten through college.
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