WET Gets God's Ear, Talks Up a Storm

Across the country, there are an enormous amount of young couples with two kids. And the younger of those two kids is called "insurance." That abiding anxiety is what playwright Jenny Schwartz drags into the light with God's Ear (at WET through November 10, tickets $10-$18), a play in which the terrible has happened, a drowning, and a couple, Mel and Ted, have to negotiate the aftermath. Any play is largely about people talking, and Schwartz heightens that verbal intensity by zooming in on stock phrases that take the place of communication, that act "as if" something were being said. On the one hand, the play isn't overly concerned with realism--Mel (Mary Bliss Mather) has what amounts to an aria of strung-together tritenesses that she offers her husband when he's finally there in person. Ted (Michael Place) is a business... [read full story]