Beck Centers superb ‘Really Really’ puts the “I” in iPhone

 

Bob Abelman

Cleveland Jewish News, The News Herald, The Morning Journal

Member, International Association of Theatre Critics

 

In the tragicomical “Really Really,” which premiered at Washington D.C.’s Signature Theatre in 2011, 26-year-old playwright Paul Downs Colaizzo puts his own entitled, self-centered generation on display.  And it isn’t pretty.

 

The play opens with a wonderfully wordless scene in which inebriated, short-skirted upperclassmen Leigh and Grace (the riveting Molly Israel and Rachel Lee Kolis, respectively) return to their campus apartment after an epic kegger. 

 

While Grace’s 90-proof exhilaration lapses into regurgitation, Leigh’s fuzzy-headed contemplation about the consensuality of the casual, drunk sex she had that evening gives birth to the plot point that drives this play’s drama.

 

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