Maybe Tomorrow presented by Wild Door Theater thru May 24th

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Maybe Tomorrow Presented by Wild Door Theater at Athenaeum Theatre thru May 24 - Review By: Paul Lisnek

***/4

“Maybe Tomorrow is Confident, Uneasy, and Darkly Funny”

Maybe Tomorrow is playwright Max Mondi’s intimate and unsettling story which relies on transforming a cramped bathroom into a pressure cooker for marriage, memory, and questionable reality. Wild Door Theater’s production embraces the play’s off-center energy by delivering an intimate, if not uncomfortable experience that is darkly funny one moment and psychologically challenging the next. This play is surely a smart choice for sophisticated audiences who enjoy a play that keeps shifting under their feet and concludes that there are no easy answers to satisfaction in life.

The play uses a deceptively ordinary setting—a bathroom—as a “safe” setting to dig into marriage, fear, perception, and the stories people tell themselves to stay afloat. The production leans into the script’s intimacy and instability; it’s performed at about 85 minutes, without an intermission, which is exactly the right approach for a show built on shifting realities, emotional pressure, and maintaining tension without ever losing momentum.

The play blurs the line between psychological suspense and theatrical playfulness. The premise explicitly invites the audience to question what is real, what is imagined, and how much of a relationship is shaped by private anxieties that are never truly insulated from public life (both in the play with vis-a-vis the audience. 

Isabella Isherwood and Lucky Star both give vibrant, confident performances as Gail and Ben bringing warmth, precision, and an easy sense of chemistry between them. Isherwood plays a natural emotional and sometimes neurotic clarity that makes her scenes resonate; Lucky Star has a grounded presence and character that helps guide the play’s tension from his sense of seeking a normalcy in life. His dreams, her interference…and just what is the reality they are living? 

Maybe Tomorrow is a polished, unconventional drama and that is part of its appeal. The show is clearly designed to be disorienting, humorous, and more than a little uncomfortable, with a kind of surprise factor that keeps the audience alert from start to finish.

“Maybe tomorrow” plays at the Athenaeum Theatre thru May 24th; tickets at www.WildDoorTheater.com