A ring of the doorbell will change everything for a married couple — and the world? — in playwright Sarah Ruhl’s drama “The Oldest Boy: A Play in Three Ceremonies” at Miners Alley
A ring of the doorbell will change everything for a married couple — and the world? — in playwright Sarah Ruhl’s involving drama “The Oldest Boy: A Play in Three Ceremonies,” at Miners Alley Playhouse.
The unexpected guests turn out to be the tangerine-robed lama Rinpoche and a younger monk . Mother thinks they’ve come to pay her husband, Father , a visit. He owns a well-regarded Tibetan restaurant in town. But they’ve ostensibly come to see Mother and Father’s 3-year-old son, Tenzin. Ruhl has written a searching play about the touchpoints of different cultures and how people who love each other navigate them. The echoes and divergences in different religions arise. Although Mother was raised Catholic, she no longer considers herself one. Yet, the stories of Abraham and Isaac, of Mary and Joseph will arise. And though she meditates, she answers “sort of” when Rinpoche asks if she’s a Buddhist.
Although Mother’s journey is foregrounded, Father doesn’t disappear from the quandaries. And Trinh conveys well the way Father inhabits his betwixt-and-between status as a Tibetan who lives in America because of China’s invasion of this native land. Act Two finds Mother on a cushion again, this time in Dharamsala, India. She’s mildly better with distractions. She is also 36 weeks pregnant. It is just a visit, she tells her mother on the phone. A curative, of sorts: Tenzin wanted to see the monastery and seeing it might make it less appealing. He is going to be enthroned but that’s merely a ceremony.
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