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Becca and Heidi

by Sharon Eberhardt

 

review in the SF Bay Guardian (Chloe Veltman)
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Heidi is the kind of girl who saves babies from burning cars and sets lab animals free. Becca is the kind of girl who smokes cigarettes and watches TV. Unlikely as it sounds, Becca and Heidi are one and the same person. As in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson's famous tale about a conflicted soul, Sharon Eberhardt's offbeat new play explores the highs and lows of human behavior. But instead of pitting good against evil, Eberhardt's central character isn't that bad at all, even at her worst. At times gaping incredulously like a cartoon goldfish while at others looking as self-possessed as Lara Croft, performer Lindsay Anderson expertly milks the bathos at the heart of Eberhardt's play. With Virginia Reed's compact direction and an incisive use of light and sound, the Shee Theatre Company's production makes us believe that we're witnessing two sides of one person, even as the person in question would have us believe we're watching two. (Veltman)

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