Leave it to a playwright like Joe Calarco to take a sentiment like this literally and put it up on the stage. The result is 4615 Theatre Company’s world premiere production of Separate Rooms, a haunting and sometimes hilarious look at the tiny ripples and huge waves the death of a loved one can send through the lives of those left behind—and a showcase for a supremely talented cast.
And as we glean from the many monologues, each of the characters has an engrossing story to tell. These singular speeches are wonderfully written and cumulatively make Separate Rooms enormously satisfying. They’re sometimes drop-dead funny, often movingly lyrical, and always flooded with feelings, which the actors deliver luminously.
