Review: A cat bent on vengeance makes for a darkly funny ride in Second Thought’s ‘Wink’
John Flores and Lauren LeBlanc in Second Though Theatre’s ‘Wink.’ (Photo by Evan Michael Woods) After being skinned and murdered, Sofie’s pet cat Wink comes back to claim one of its lives.
Wink has vengeance in mind with Gregor, Sofie’s husband, as its target for skinning him. This is the premise of queer playwright Jen Silverman’s play Wink which Second Thought Theatre opened last Friday.
But the dark, comic fable wasn’t about the cat as much as it was about transformation. Wink was a play that was many things: a drama, a comedy, far-fetched, intimate, disturbing.
Silverman’s story mixed all these elements into a compelling story where Wink, played by Garret Storms, walked and talked and interacted with the characters and in this world onstage, it made sense.
