![]() Rue is sitting in the audience and understands Lexi’s pain that she helped cause. She centered the story on herself and it is telling, to me at least, why Rue is somehow the only one who doesn’t seem angry and understands where Lexi is coming from. So she put herself as the main character. “A little exchange and I fall in love, a moment to myself and I’m on stage, but reality always finds a way of pulling me back.” And the reality is that Lexi was always the observer and no one saw her as the main character. “I feel like I’ve lived most of my life in my imagination, taking the smallest moments and dreaming them up into something bigger,” Lexi narrates. She didn’t scream at people that it wasn’t about her, but it was clearly hurting her, and we saw it through her play. It was never about Lexi, and she didn’t really make that a thing. If it wasn’t Rue (Zendaya) struggling with her addiction, it was some other friend needing help. If it wasn’t Cassie’s show in her at home life, it was her parents. ![]() What really worked about the staged production was that it gave Lexi the reins and let her tell her story, however stylized it was. Honestly, where is THAT audience member on the show? Just the one guy who has no idea who these characters are supposed to be, just like, “Wait what are they doing on a roof? Who is that man supposed to be? Why is the one kid playing 20 characters?” Lexi’s time to shine ![]() There are moments that are clearly in the staged production that would have left me asking what the hell was happening. I’m well aware that this an avant garde way of exploring Lexi’s story, and it goes back and forth between the reality these characters are living in and Lexi’s own play, but still.
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