Writer Rosa Laborde’s keen ear for rapid-fire, entertaining dialogue is matched by Kat Sandler’s fast-paced direction in the show playing at the Tarragon Theatre
Nihilistic documentarist turned temporary interior designer Olivia stares out at the audience with no small amount of wistfulness, explaining the appeal of marathoning home improvement shows instead of dealing with the current turbulent state of the world. It’s the happy ending found at the heart of these relatively low-stakes, formulaic episodes about transformation, she tells us, that’s so invigorating.
seems to imply that the party is an intervention for their wayward friend that will stop the ocean of lotion. Sophie gets little backup from marketer Maya , an expert at skirting conflict by telling both sides what they want to hear. Laborde’s keen ear for rapid-fire, entertaining dialogue is matched by Kat Sandler’s fast-paced direction, as the women trade barbs laced with the 30 years of history that can age a fine wine or a bitter poison. The joy of the show, however, is that it’s not simply a one-evening descent into a disintegrating friendship; the intervention is where the exploration starts, rather than ends.
Fu’s Olivia is dourly sarcastic but also playfully mischievous; set designer Shannon Lea Doyle is clearly having a great time as Olivia deliberately chooses the most egregiously loud apartment decor possible for Sophie, a woman who agonizes over whether to paint her wall one of two nearly identical muted shades.
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