act curtain

It’s Paul who brings down the first act curtain of Selina Fillinger’s rough-and-tumble feminist comedy — and with it, in a way, the patriarchy itself.

She brings down the first act curtain with coy quiet.

We could have taken an act break after the winning of the Revolutionary War, and certainly “Yorktown” felt like a fantastic first act curtain, but it was clear we needed to set up the stakes for the second act before letting the audience go.

I leave my seat the moment the first act curtain starts to fall.

Mr. Sommer’s wittily appalled Bradley needs to be a shade more menacing for the second act curtain scene to unsettle as it should.