Overview
- The play opened November 17 at Second Stage’s Signature Center and is scheduled to run through December 7.
- Playwright Talene Monahon’s production is directed by David Cromer, with critics highlighting standout work from Will Brill and Andrea Martin.
- Act one dramatizes a 1923–24 Portland naturalization fight over whether Armenians qualified as legally white, drawing on U.S. immigration and naturalization law.
- Act two moves to contemporary Glendale with a reality-TV setup that reignites arguments over ethnicity, representation, and how Armenians identify on the U.S. census.
- Reviews commend the witty writing, precise comic timing, and respectful treatment of the Armenian genocide, while noting some uneven pacing and praising Tatiana Kahvegian’s set and Enver Chakartash’s costumes.