The Comeuppance
November 19 – December 14, 2024

Mortality, Chaos, and Aging Millennials: ‘Comeuppance’ at Woolly Mammoth

October 21, 2024
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September 20, 2024 by Norah Vawter

Sarah Gliko, Alana Raquel Bowers, Jordan Bellow, and Taysha Marie Canales in The Comeuppance. Cameron Whitman Photography.

Alternatingly funny, shocking, and heartbreaking, the play centers on a group of high school friends reuniting twenty years after graduation. The acting is sharp, the dialogue witty, and the production moves easily from comedy to tragedy, empathy to cruelty, love to hatred. It’s a beautiful and moving production. But prepare to be unsettled. If you enjoy going out to a show that makes you think, question, and feel intensely, this is the show for you.