A Final Whimsy (7 out of 10)
Style: Traditional play
A nice David Belke drama. It concerned itself a lot with the stories (whimseys), true and false, that families tell each other. This one has a side-story for me. The ending was ambiguous. I don’t like an ending that I can’t figure out. It makes me feel dumb, that I missed some clue that would have explained it. I can understand the enjoyment of of having an ending you can think about, but I want to know that the author knows what is going on. Conveniently, the author was right there at the back of the theatre and I could interrogate him. He did know what was going on, but he also repeated the last line. “That’s the problem with whimseys. You never know which ones to believe.” Hearing that gave a nice recursion to the piece that increased my enjoyment a lot.