\nThe cast of <\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
There are witty misunderstandings and profound questions around language and culture (what makes the Irish McCamant more innately American than them, the family wonder). Son Vahan (Raffi Barsoumian) may be too \u201chairy\u201d (i.e. too obviously Armenian) and aggressive to attend court. Behind the backchat and flurry of food and rugs being offered as gifts\u2014including an extremely mortifying bottle of whisky\u2014the thump of very real peril thrums as the Cartozians contemplate their home and dedicatedly built business being taken from them.<\/p>\n
Meet the Cartozians<\/i> interrogates what it means and doesn\u2019t mean to be Armenian, American, white, judged not to be white, and an immigrant, all in playful, practical, intellectual, and very personal terms.<\/p>\n
This comes into a more ribald and contemporary focus in act two. Here, the set (strikingly designed in both eras by Tatiana Kahvegian) has been transformed into a lush Glendale 2024 home, where a star who sounds very much like Kim Kardashian is about to show up to film a scene in a show that sounds very much like Keeping Up With the Kardashians<\/i>. Nacer, Barsoumian, Brill, and Susan Pourfar (the latter appeared only briefly in the first act) are now playing a group of Armenian community luminaries dragooned into speaking to the celebrity about her roots on camera.<\/p>\n\n\nThe cast of <\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Except the celebrity doesn\u2019t show up on time\u2014in her seat is a plastic container containing the salad she has requested. The arguments of 1924 around identity, geography, and race erupt more volubly in 2024, with Brill playing, again scene-swipingly, a production assistant who causes utter chaos when he angrily claims that being Irish is akin to being Black. When the star finally appears, played by Sevunts as an almost ethereal being emerging from the shadows with Kardashian-y vowels, it is to have a final, moving exchange with Nacer\u2019s character.<\/p>\n
With clarity, wit, and depth, Meet the Cartozian<\/i>s achieves something much cleverer than predictable satire or worthy lecture. This thought-provoking comedy-drama\u2019s standout moment\u2014and biggest belly laugh\u2014comes from Martin\u2019s character in act two, when the stage suddenly goes dark. Her line is not about one of the play\u2019s bigger themes, but its out-of-nowhere brilliance seals why Meet the Cartozians <\/i>next deserves to travel a few blocks east\u2014and conquer Broadway.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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