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The most joyful moment inCounting and Crackinginvolves a homemade Slip N Slide.
To the top, she adds, just so were clear.
Radha isCounting and Crackings smart, defensive, aching heart.
WhenCounting and Crackingwobbles, it does so because its characters conversations start to stray into earnest, theme-y territory.
She anchors us in the storys viscera, even as Radha herself becomes increasingly unmoored.
In a sense, Shakthidharans play is an act of reverence for this gradual unmooring.
I am grateful for that.
It is the hard choice.
Instead, they start from a place of tenderness and curiosity, a real desire to learn.
That desire is contagious.
We witness the undoing of both an ego and a spirit.
He doesnt hammer, and he doesnt linger.
He lets his company move swiftly and lightly, even when the storys events are at their heaviest.
This is theater as rite its no accident thatCounting and Crackinggravitates toward weddings and funerals and also as game.
We take hands to mourn and to dance.
We go to the river to swim and to spread ashes.
We pretend both to comprehend the past and to imagine the future.
On the one hand, the boomer is breezy.
Things have a way of working out, Greta declares as Tanner winces.
But their genuinely kind heart and deep integrity become a buoy when the waves get roughest.
