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The Monsters: Siblings, MMA, and the “Monsters” We Carry
In this episode of Half Hour, we discuss the Off-Broadway world premiere of The Monsters, written and directed by Ngozi Anyanwu and presented by Manhattan Theatre Club at New York City Center’s Stage II. We walk through the play’s premise, following Lil as she turns up at the door of her older brother Big, a local MMA fighter, and how their long-delayed reunion becomes a reckoning with old wounds, ambition, and the “monsters” they both carry.
We examine the structure and pacing of the piece, Ngozi Anyanwu’s direction, and how the production uses fighting and training as a frame for a sibling…
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