Sharpenicity

Melancholy Play: A Contemporary Farce Nick Martin has done an amazing directing job leading the audience step by step to believe that we might all actually be almonds and just not know it in Constellation Theatre Company’s  opening of  their 2018-2019 season with Sarah Ruhl’s sparkling, sassy, sexy comedy Melancholy . Tilly, the bank teller, is not being silly when the first thing she asks is “Why are you an almond?”  The human brain’s  amygdala is one of the two almond-shaped groups that processes memory, decision making and emotional responses—all the things involved in falling in love or being angry,  making us happy or sad, or in short making us humans be human.    The story is simple but where it leads is not. Falling in love with love — everyone does when they encounter “the exquisite personification of melancholy,” Tillie the bank teller (Billie Krishawn).  Lorenzo  (Christian Montgomery) is her foreign therapist treating her because the bank wants her to be