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The musical itself is rocky too dramatizing a 10-year-olds emotional breakdown in song poses difficulties for the stage.
She started out funny she just didnt start outhappy.
In New Hampshire in the 80s, 10-year-old Sarah (Zoe Glick) is trying to stay positive.
Its an issue, therefore, that Anne Kauffmans production doesnt develop much extra amusement.
This colorless interchangeability runs counter to the shows certainty that Sarahs home life is unusual.
Thats a great line but what is she seeing?
Why doesnt the show make a visual joke here?
In general, there are too few of these.
This dampened quality extends to the actors bodies.
Even in those big open spaces, Kauffmans cast doesnt move very much.
Moms stuck in bed, Nana rarely budges from her chair.
The other adults do offer the key pleasures ofThe Bedwetter.
(Smile and wave, smile and wave.)
Crom is terrific as Carson and as various doctors, all of whom succumb to their own terrible pressures.
Of course, that breezy sense of improvisation only comes after plenty of workshopping, radical tear-it-up-til-it-works stuff.
It rips up a couple of irritating proprieties pisses on them, actually.
But someday the showswearsthisis truetheyll be able to joke about it.
The Bedwetteris at the Atlantic Theater Company through July 3.
