Review: Hungry Teenage Track Stars by Broad Theatre

by Michael Meigs
Published on October 03, 2024

What a vivid portrayal of the the stress of adolescence! Five lively, questioning young women struggle with uncertainty, imposed norms, and their own developing emotional lives.

  Theatre is a gymnasium for empathy, a Facebook meme admonishes us. But it's also a Tardis, a magic space that can take you anywhere, anytime, to anyone. That's how on a Friday night we found ourselves in the aching space of female adolescence.   First sight: two rows of teenage women, squintng at us as if they were ranged on the other side of a two-way mirror. Wordless beneath a roar of pop music, …

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