Liberty Talks!

It is of course Curry who is the star, present in every scene, wise-cracking, showing us what might be going on behind the façade of easy-to-espouse yet difficult-to-live concepts. He is wickedly funny, sexy and absurd by turns, with a strong voice that is startlingly human (smoking a joint, drinking bourbon, and popping pills… “I take them for my back, okay?” she hisses. “You try holding up that torch!”).

The comedic exhaustion the Statue of Liberty feels as she has to handle the voices in her head as to who she is, defined by everybody from an equally chatty statue of Sojourner Truth to a Texas school teacher, give this production directed by Janice J. Goldberg, a roller coaster style pacing with absurdity and sentimentality offering a compelling interpretation of these confusing times that are filled with hope and fear.