School reunions, like work and family ones, are fertile ground for dramatists, offering an excuse to gather disparate characters with a catalog of ready-made conflicts.
(There’s always someone who got dumped, dissed or disowned x years ago.)
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins juggles all of these elements in “The Comeuppance,” which opened Monday at the Signature Theater.
It’s an odd sensation to side with Death, but we want to know these people, too.
Each has struggled to achieve maturity or happiness or just a sense of belonging — a problem that was already evident in high school when they bonded as members of MERGE, a “multiethnic reject group” with a problematic extra E.
Persons:
Branden Jacobs, Jenkins, Eric Ting, Jacobs, invisibly
Organizations:
St, Anthony’s
Locations:
Washington