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InLewiston, we meet Alice just as shes about to let go of her last 20 acres of land.
Dont you want to I dont know, self-actualize or whatever?
Seems like youve been self-actualizing your entire life, Connor replies, his eyes hurt and hard.
Hows that going for you?
You have $30,000?
Connor grunts when Marnie tells him about the offer shes made Alice.
He pauses, then remembers he spotted her for dinner earlier: Your pizza cost twelve bucks.
Money isrealinLewiston/Clarkstonin a way its often just not on New York stages.
I think you could call up Mommy or Daddy and they would send you $5,000.
I think for you $5,000 is pretty much meaningless … Do you know what $5,000 is tome?
Five thousand dollars is what I can put toward my college loans aftereighteen monthsof workingfull time.
Thats what $5,000 dollars means to me.
Marnie and Jake are the explorers in their respective plays, and theyre not bad people.
I was being mean, says Marnie to Connor after snubbing his job at the Walgreens.
Then she adds, … And classist.
Connor raises an eyebrow.
The fact that Marnie knows the word doesnt mean she gets it yet.
But of course, Marnies suffering.
And Jake is too.
And so are Alice and Connor.
And Chris and his mother, Trish.
Hes got Huntingtons disease.
But the real trajectory ofClarkstonis Jake and Chriss cautious motion toward each other.
That desolation comes in part from his having grown up with an addict.
The play could have easily been a two-hander, but Trish catapults its stakes and concerns to new heights.
As the desperate, shiny-eyed Trish, Heidi Armbruster is frighteningly fantastic.
Of course, she never actually says it that way.
Jake blinks as if into the sun: That feels new, at least.
Lewiston/Clarkstonis at theRattlestick Playwrights Theater through December 2.
