A review by jheinemann287
The Antipodes by Annie Baker

3.0

I was feeling anxious last night and couldn't sleep, so I picked up this copy of The Antipodes that I checked out from the library back in March after reading Annie Baker's The Vermont Plays for a book club. It was fitting. I was feeling claustrophobic and frustrated, and so are these characters. True, it's a play where nothing happens -- even less than the nothing that happens in Circle Mirror Transformation, (my favorite of the The Vermont Plays) and The Aliens -- but Baker is a master of saying something BETWEEN everything the actors actually say. The silences, the interruptions, the rambling monologues that don't really go anywhere -- there's humanity in all of that. The lack of a story is the story here (in more ways than one).

What I'm trying to say is that one of my new life goals is to see an Annie Baker play performed in person.

And, uh, what's up with Brian?