The dialogue here was a real standout for me. Great flow, some lovely turns of phrase that were almost poetic. I worried a play about transness in 30's rural Alberta would be didactic, but the story was told beautifully.

Wonderful voice acting from the two performers brought these puppets to life, and the set was charming and intricate. A puppet show that breaks the boundaries of the puppet stage can be really risky but I felt it was done to good effect here more than once. I think the only element that I didn't love was the almost vaudevillian fight scenes; I wasn't totally on board with that depiction of domestic violence.

I'm a bit familiar with Calla Wright's work from when they did the Wright Brothers play a couple years ago. Interestingly, I thought that play was just alright, kind of a typical family-oriented educational play, except for the scene where Calla discussed their relationship to gender changing while they were developing the play. There was a kernel of something interesting in there that I wanted to see more of. I'm really happy to see the "more" of that come to fruition here.