A review by rebadee
The Antipodes by Annie Baker

4.0

The Antipodes is a shift from Annie Baker's recent works in that it has a multitude of voices competing in nearly every scene. This makes sense as its set in a writers' room where the characters are conceptualizing a new story project. It was similar to Sarah DeLappe's The Wolves' with multiple conversations taking place. Reading these sections is disorienting, but live it may feel more natural to follow these concurrent threads. The Antipodes combines the mundanity of staff meetings with otherworldly events occurring in the stories shared by staff members. The strangeness was reminiscent of the stories told by the innkeeper in Baker's earlier work John. Baker's focus here is on story and how one comes to be created, whose stories are considered of value, and the impacts of stories on the people who construct and tell them.