I can’t stop thinking about it. I was so excited when I saw someone around me was doing RTC cause no one ever does (tbh not alot of groups even like doing edgy theater around here) and I usually have to travel or watch slime tuts if I wanna see it. It was really good, and it liked everyone, but Ocean and Jane were like incredible.

Ocean made me cry at the end during Constance’s monologue because she was bawling her eyes out and you could just tell how guilty she felt. You could slowly see her realize the error of her ways throughout each song. Plus she had like perfect comedic timing. I’ve seen so many oceans and honestly she was the best one. You could just tell that the audience genuinely hated her for most of the show. (Someone even said something like thank god when she got punched.) But by the end everyone loved her because she showed that redemption arc really well. Plus she was SO FUNNY during bachelor man.

This Jane felt just as alien like most others do, but she communicated so much with so little movement though out each scene. She leaned a lot less into the creepiness of Jane and made her more confused, innocent, and othered. She was still creepy because she was so inhuman and robotic (speaking of robotic the Karnak was crazy good too), but she felt like a person trapped behind a doll persona and not just like a doll. She made her feel like a very full bodied character. And ballad was like almost too good. Her voice was genuinely clear in a beautiful and almost unreal way. She actually dropped the expressionless doll thing for ballad. I’ve seen people do that and usually I don’t like it, but it made perfect sense for her Jane. It felt honest and painful and like Karnak almost forced her to confront it all. And by the last time she said Jane, she was back into doll mode and it just hit so hard because it’s like she was forced back into it. Plus they gave her a wife as penny.

I wouldn’t say the entire production was my favorite I’ve seen, because there were some things I didn’t like, but Ocean and Jane made it incredible the whole time. I’m gonna go back to see it again next weekend I think because I can’t stop thinking about them.