See Bob Run

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Playwright Daniel MacIvor made a splash last season with his sleeper hit Never Swim Alone. And Susan O'Connor, who had a small part in that show, now has a much expanded role--the only role, in fact--in MacIvor's newest piece, the solo drama See Bob Run. Here, O'Connor plays Bob (short for Roberta, but no one calls her Roberta), a young woman hitchhiking her way eastward. Where she is running to, we don't know; what she is running from, we eventually find out.

Bob begins by telling us a metaphorical fairy tale that paints her father as a saint and her mother as an evil witch while graphically illustrating that Bob's low self-esteem stems from her very conception. It's a rather clever [...]