‘The Humans’ is 90 minutes long with no intermission and fantastic performances. JULIETA CERVANTES
Everything people love and hate about plays is perfectly exemplified by Stephen Karam’s The Humans, which was a hit on and off Broadway and opened at the Seattle Rep last week. On the plus side: It’s an intimate, insightful, involving piece of domestic drama, a textbook for accurate and eloquent stage design, and a showcase for fantastic performances by the entire ensemble cast, led by Pamela Reed, Richard Thomas, and a standout Therese Plaehn.
On the minus side: It’s a play that throws its lasso around everything wrong in America in 2017, forcing the characters to groan under the weight of their designation as symbols of the long, slow death of the lie of the American dream.
