October 21, 2024
The Washington Post
Review by Naveen Kumar
Mortality stalks the edges of a 20th high school reunion in “The Comeuppance” by D.C. native Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, now at Woolly Mammoth.
Taysha Marie Canales, left, Jaime Maseda, Sarah Gliko and Alana Raquel Bowers in Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company’s production of “The Comeuppance.” (Cameron Whitman)
The play’s dissection of early middle age — of the melancholy of reckoning with irreversible decisions and the inevitable decline ahead — is so gutting that it may become as much a personal touchstone for this time in my life as my own experiences.
