Reviews

  • IT’S A MOTHERF**KING PLEASURE: A Show that Sees & Includes it All 

    Not Your Token Trauma-Porn FlawBored, the multi-award-winning disability-led theatre company, doesn’t do trauma-porn or pity-porn. And thank f**k for that. IT’S A MOTHERF**KING PLEASURE is chaotic, cheeky, and unapologetically irreverent—exactly what we need in conversations around ableism. FlawBored’s co-founders and performers, Samuel Brewer, Aarian Mehrabani, and Chloe Palmer, have crafted a metatheatrical experience that refuses

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  • A Family Tree Full of Secrets: Don’t Eat the Mangos at The Huntington

    Sweet Fruit, Rotten Core   Set in Puerto Rico, Don’t Eat the Mangos invites us into the crumbling home of three sisters navigating love, loyalty, and the long, festering wounds of generational trauma. What begins as a darkly comedic story following a family’s dysfunction,  quickly spirals into something much deeper—and far heavier. The play centers

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  • Her Portmanteau: A Suitcase Full of Expectations 

    Mfoniso Udofia’s Her Portmanteau is a deeply moving installment in the Ufot Family Cycle, currently playing at Central Square Theater co-produced with Front Porch Arts Collective. This fourth chapter in Udofia’s series brings us into an emotionally charged reunion between three women—Abasiama Ufot and her two daughters, Adiaha and Iniabasi—who are navigating the chasm created

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