My overall impression
“You’re a good liar. I wish I could lie as well as you.”
This particular line of dialogue nicely summed up my feelings about Will Play for Food’s production of It’s Important to Leave, as Well. If that doesn’t sound like a compliment, it is, though in the same way the show itself goes about delivering it’s message. The play uses the essential dishonesty of theatre (which is just professional pretending, after all) as a way to address the ways that people are dishonest with one another and with themselves. It also hits on passivity vs activity in relationships, and the ways in which we’re manipulated by both art and human drama. All that done in only an hour, and deftly, at that. If the above sounds like your cup of tea, take my word for it that it’s all well-executed here, and if it doesn’t, go see it anyway. You’ll be better off for it.
