Normally, I am impressed by the Black Rep's productions. Unfortunately, this performance was plagued with sound issues for most of the first act, which caused the dialogue-heavy story to suffer.

The play, conceived by Joe Mantegna and written by members of The Organic Theatre, follows the action of a Chicago Cubs–St. Louis Cardinals game at Wrigley Field from the perspective of the folks in the cheap seats—the bleacher bums.

The saucy muse presents the artist with a vial of magic dust to conjure creativity. It’s a mite fey and childish. Will Tinkerbell be flitting through now?

Michelle Hand, as the youngest, Deborah, both in appearance and demeanor embodied the lessening effect of history on subsequent generations, as fear lifts and lightness takes its place, and the struggle to find a balance between the past and the future grows more removed.