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ashp9's review against another edition
3.0
It became easier to imagine with Phoebe Waller Bridge as female lead and the play became majorly relatable and somehow.... enjoyable?
This is a play that deals with toxic relationships and how lack of communication leads to them becoming all messed up. There's a scene where David pushes Marian's face under water and forces it down for a real long time, reason you ask? Quite simply he didn't want her to exist in that moment. That represents a character with fucked up mental health and one who needs help to make his thoughts reasonable but honestly it just seems relatable since that's how we've come to think now and I guess the worst thing about this play, therefore, is how truly it represents the society.
This is a play that deals with toxic relationships and how lack of communication leads to them becoming all messed up. There's a scene where David pushes Marian's face under water and forces it down for a real long time, reason you ask? Quite simply he didn't want her to exist in that moment. That represents a character with fucked up mental health and one who needs help to make his thoughts reasonable but honestly it just seems relatable since that's how we've come to think now and I guess the worst thing about this play, therefore, is how truly it represents the society.
catdad77a45's review
4.0
Thorne is now known more as a screen writer, but this early play effort shows him to be a subtle and original playwright as well. I liked how the dialogue doesn't really tell you what's going on with the two characters until very late in the game... and even then is never explicit, so that you have to work it out for yourself. Haven't a clue what the title means - it's a species of fly, but what that has to do with anything is anybody's guess.
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