God’s Ear
Description
On its glassy, frozen face, Jenny Schwartz’s magnificent God’s Ear looks a great deal like its New Georges incarnation a year ago, and almost exactly the same cast measures out Schwartz’s modernist, stunned prose. But somehow Anne Kauffman’s already-effortless production has gotten lighter and lonelier all at once. The sliver of story—a couple (Christina Kirk, Gibson Frazier) mourns a drowned son—now hangs as weightless and lovely as an icicle, barely dripping with grief. Schwartz flies the flag for whimsical playwriting while at the same time displaying a linguistic sophistication with roots in Georges Perec and Gertrude Stein.—HS
