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It is September 12th, 2001; the setting is the Minneapolis apartment of Waverly, a young advertising executive. Soon to venture on a blind date amidst the television news coverage of the September 11th attacks, Waverly becomes preoccupied when she discovers that her twin sister, Wendy, a student in New York, has not been heard from. Waverly reassures herself that Wendy had no reason to be at the World Trade Center. As the evening unfolds, Waverly and her blind date, Andrew, an airport bookstore manager, realize that they are connected by a succession of bizarre coincidences. As Waverly awaits word on Wendy, the date is complicated by visits from her crazed-musician neighbor, Ron, and his girlfriend, Nancy, and a startling visit from Waverly's great aunt, Joyce Carol Oates—played by a sock puppet.
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Susan Johnson
reviewed Recent Tragic Events on November 10, 2010 Recent Tragic Events
This play is a revelatory musing on fate and how much of our actions are controlled or preordained. That Wright chose to ask questions about such things via the lens of two people trying to go on a blind date during 9/11 proves he's either foolhardy or particularly in tune with what he wants to say. I tend to feel the latter, as this is the only play that has ties to that day that I don't find a complete sham (likely for reasons of use and distance).
The reason for that is the characters -- the uneasy man arriving at the harried woman's apartment (the woman who hasn't heard from her twin sister all day), the crazy neighbors (one of whom also plays Joyce Carol Oates via sock puppet), and the stage manager for the production who may or may not be allowing the audience to pull the production's strings. Each man and woman in the play strives to understand the other; it just happens to be on a day which has a terrifying backdrop. A terrifying backdrop that has a reason to be there, I might add. Which is tough to do in this day and age.
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