“Make Believe” is a rich and moving contemporary drama — the kind that builds itself from fragments that could just as easily fail to bind. With the help of a toy chest of tricks Ms. Wohl has in store, they do bind here; her formal daring, her precise calibration of humor and despair, her confidence and anger and empathy, all mingled, lift “Make Believe” into the realm where even naturalism becomes a great mystery.

Fittingly it achieves that entirely within a set (by David Zinn) depicting an attic playroom, complete with art supplies, a clubhouse fort, a hideous Cabbage Patch doll and a toy kitchen. There in the mid 1980s, the four Conlee siblings, ages 5 through 12, take hilarious refuge from the real world below by compulsively re-creating it in their games. Over “dinners” of plastic food, and in arguments that blur the line between childish bullying and adult fury, they borrow and repurpose their elders’ clichés.

 

 

 

Size 135 x 215 mm

Condition: Used Good 8 – 10

 

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