MARGO

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Company: sunday dinner productions

Genre: Play - Dramedy

Venue: 8 - The Rachel Browne Theatre

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Fans of indie dramadies about quirky, traumatized characters searching for love will find a lot to appreciate insunday dinner productions' story of a broken anthropologist and the building caretaker who helps her find herself again.

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Molly Blanchard-Cross' script peels away the layers of Margo's self-inflicted isolation while building a believable relationship between the charactersand builds to a satisfying and honestly earned conclusion.

The performances are naturally awkward and awkwardly natural.

The problem for me is that the well-earned suspension of disbelief wastoo often shattered by slow cues, a low sound mix (there's understated, and then there's muted), and Edith, Margo's unnaturally large and eerily still goldfish - a significant and significantly distracting prop.

Fans ofindiedramadiesabout quirky, traumatized characters searching for love will find a lot to appreciate.- Kelly Stifora

Perhaps I'm just being too picky; it's an almost-great show. But with this type of contemporary story, for me it's all about the details. I think Margo might understand.