The wonderful result of finally “figuring it out.”
No one else is going to romanticize your life for you, so why not orchestrate your own romantic comedy as a one woman show to make sense of the fact you are a lesbian? This quirky, queer coming out story is a years long journey of self-discovery in the comfort of a black box theatre. Humorous, awkward and obvious in its complete subversion of the “insert your name here” through line, Shea had the group of aptly called out twenty something bisexuals howling with laughter. This meet cute turned friends to almost lovers but not quite, is a wonderful slice of life that perfectly demonstrates the disobliging way of the universe to not do what we want.
With excellent delivery and physical comedy, Shea displayed the onslaught of identity discovery in the ally to lesbian pipeline. Her story could be anyone’s story and yet was also uniquely her’s complete with an almost dollhouse set of props and an ingeniously clever notebook to prompt the audience throughout. The universality of the piece, that obviously resonated with all those assembled, served as its greatest strength narratively but did add a level of impenetrable confusion that did become a bit much to parse out at times. By engaging so broadly, we lost a little of the heart of her central coming out story. Overall though, it was an incredibly enjoyable piece that gave a comedic voice to an often emotional and dramatic process of coming to terms with what seems obvious to everyone around you.