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Review: Echo’s ‘in a word’ is a shattering experience

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Jennifer Engler as Fiona in Echo Theatre’s ‘in a word.’ (Courtesy Echo) That playwright Lauren Yee wrote in a word at the age of 22 is both remarkable and frightening.

Her insight into the grief of a 40-something (maybe late 30s) mother who lost her child in a kidnapping is impressive. Echo Theatre’s production of Yee’s show was equally so.

Jennifer Engler is Fiona, a mother, wife and school teacher, who has been in a state to say the least for two years since her seven year-old child Tristan (Thomas Magee) went missing.

Her grief and determination to find justice outweighs that of her husband Guy (Jared Culpepper) who initially just wants to take her to dinner at a fancy restaurant where they are late for a reservation made two months ago.

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