Theater Review: Laughing Through Collapse in Mother Russia

Theater Review: Laughing Through Collapse in Mother Russia

Lauren Yee’s farce blends slapstick, surveillance, and Soviet nostalgia, but its critique of capitalism stops short of a fresh indictment. by Lindsay Costello It’s 1992, and two young Russian men are mid-worship of a Filet-O-Fish sandwich. They fall to their knees and claim massive, moaning bites with sexual fervor.  “How is it so soft?” one marvels. “Is this what capitalism tastes like?” Lauren Yee’s Mother Russia, the final play in Profile The…