What raises the play above sitcom status is Crossman’s ability to be both casual and intense at the same time. The theater is tiny and she tailors her performance to the intimacy of the performance space. She easily gets away with speaking directly to the audience with her combination of girlish pleasure and adult satisfaction and gives a totally absorbing portrait.
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“Theater should be accessible to all, especially when plays like ‘The Great Divide’ touch upon important topics such as suicide, mental health, and alcoholism. Talking about these matters with delicacy serves a larger purpose of raising awareness and letting us know we’re not alone...The play is a tragicomedy, where the audience laughs during the performance but once you are just about to leave the theater it might make you shed a tear and look at those unimportant, ordinary details of life with more curiosity.”
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