Two other young insurgents, Tara and Marc, played with fabulous commitment and deadpan comic sensibilities by Lauren E. Banks and Jacob Yeh, arrive for a presumed dinner and karaoke party. In a master stroke of comic absurdism reminiscent of the great Italian actor-playwrights Dario Fo and Franca Rama, playwright Holcroft has these four insurgents build their homemade bomb through a frenetic assembly-line process while alternately crooning out pop songs in a couples’ contest on the karaoke machine. The scene is both hysterical and telling, with insipid pop culture tunes as the ultimate cover for deadly-serious sedition.
BroadWay World
Most memorably, the couple engages is an evening of karaoke and bomb building with guests and fellow operatives Tara and Marc (Lauren E. Banks and Jacob Yeh). This longish scene is a tour de force of blocking (kudos Ms. Twyford) and concentration on the part of the talented and diverse cast.
Washington Blade