Of the Woman Came the Beginning of Sin and Through Her We All Die

See it if you’d like to see a different take on the working lives of millennial women.

Don't see it if you are looking for a traditional play.

Also Until about 2/3 of the way through “of the woman…” I found it exhilarating in its unconventional form, its insight into millennial (women’s) behavior & the offhand way it could laugh it all off. The dress shop setting was delightfully shabby chic & colorful, & everything felt so refreshingly casual, even after it starts getting spooky. A group of 4 women who work in a dress shop’s basement can be loving or slashing about each other, but bind anyway in a regular evening “coven” they hold. But because everything is so loosey-goosey, it needs the recurring structure of “coven” meetings to hold things together. When that disappears, & the coven breaks up & there are 2 more characters suddenly & major charges of “privilege” thrown up against 1 or all of the coven, there’s just so much on the table that things start to break down. I did however find much of playwright Houghton’s writing as fresh as anything I’ve heard this season & look forward to further work.... Read more Read less

See it if You have a friend in the cast. You like flowery/poetic text.

Don't see it if You want action. There’s limited, confusing plot/narrative. Mainly quirky text signifying nothing.

See it if you have a friend in the cast, want to support a young female playwright and predominately female cast

Don't see it if you want a play that really has something to clearly say; I can see what the playwright was trying to do, but something was missing

See it if you like subtle messages, good writing, refreshingly different drama

Don't see it if you only want to see traditional drama, musicals or are not interested in something that requires a bit of thinking

See it if you like spirituality or witchcraft.

Don't see it if you can’t stand a very ditsy character (at the begging of a show).

See it if You like off-the-beaten path theatre.

Don't see it if You like more traditional musicals

See it if you want to support femme narratives breaking the norm onstage.

Don't see it if you want tradition.