Daisy Foote's Bhutan is a jigsaw puzzle with pieces from past and present jumbled together until, gradually, the picture of a Massachusetts working-class family and its dynamics, its conflicts with each other and with the world, becomes clear. It's a domestic drama with realism underlined by the stylized presentation.
A woman and her widowed sister whose son is in jail and whose daughter is an intellectual flower in this desert of low ambition, deal with the frustrations in their lives, and we are drawn into their struggles. All four cast members bring total believability to the play. At center is the powerful Tasha Lawrence as the mother. Sarah Lord, Amy Redford and Jedadiah Schultz clearly inhabit their characters, giving depth and passion to their portrayals, and Evan Yionoulis directs with fine timing.
