The play spirals out to explore the loneliness of others in related orbits. A janitor affords Claudia space to breathe when overwhelmed. But displaced from his country and his language, he mourns his inability to connect. Her father's fiancée Leslie, when seen not through the one-dimensional eyes of a child, shows an all too familiar desperation and fear.
Liisa Repo-Martell is absolutely wondrous in this one-woman show. Each character is tremendously polished, and she transitions from one to another with ease. She has the interesting ability to be powerful in stillness: In the final touching monologue, Claudia is seated and still but you can almost feel the tempest circling her.
I, ClaudiaBy Kristen
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