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Do people listen to the lyrics, though?
Or do they listen to their heart?
Here, its clear that feeling has won out.
Listen to the people sing, in this case, not with your mind but with your heart.
Also in the tradition of Mark inRentor Orpheus inHadestown, he cant seem to finish his one big song.
Biting the bullet and voting for a centrist?
Encouraging the overthrow of a despot, even if hes democratically elected?
A beach boutique, responds Gigi, a beeaach boouutique??
The terms of their conflict are clear from the jump.
Gigi, in turn, bristles at Simones assumptions and then bristles further when Simone talks herself in circles.
The arrangement troubles Simone Its a thing, Gigi.
Morisseau is herself writing from a position like Simones.
As a playwright, she rides the character who seems most autobiographical the hardest.
Morisseaus play does, however, creep cautiously toward a web of more complex and charged relationships.
