In Jennifer Rumberger's The Locusts at Gift Theatre, an FBI agent hunts a serial killer in her Florida hometown and confronts her family's legacy of generational trauma. | kerryreid
spoofed the fascination a few years ago with a song about women relaxing alone at home watching their favorite are overwhelmingly female. When you’re raised from an early age to think that rape and murder are occupational hazards of your gender, maybe morbid laughter and obsessive research are two coping mechanisms—a way of saying to the world, “I’m not afraid, really. They’re just stories.
Rumberger has noted that part of the inspiration for her play was reading about the early life of Mary Shelley. The author ofnever knew her mother, feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, who died shortly after giving birth to her, and she faced ostracism for her relationship with Percy Shelley, whose first wife killed herself. She turned that personal trauma into exteriorized monsters, much as Olive does with her fiction in the play.
So there’s a lot heaped on the dramatic plate here, and not everything feels like it gets the development it deserves. The resentments between Ella and Maisie in particular feel like they’re swept away pretty quickly. What does stick is the way that each of the sisters has chosen a different way of dealing with their early traumas. Maisie, a nurse, cares for others in a hands-on way, while Ella is more comfortable in an office, analyzing crimes from a distance in order to achieve justice.
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