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We come to know May Rebecca as this sweet young woman, who has needs as much as any of us do, yet has limitations due to her cognitive age. Farb embodies her delicately in her physicality and voice. She also becomes the very feisty July Rebecca just as swiftly in her tonality, and use of profanity left, right, and centre. Their emotions are real and palpable. Their emotions are also very valid.

The use of minimal staging props along with some multi-media components make this one-person play rather intimate. As an audience, we feel we are being let into July Rebecca‘s secrets and torments. We also get a sense of May Rebecca‘s, albeit infantile, true self. I found both stories very moving, and also very much necessary to witness. R-E-B-E-C-C-A will leave you pondering about yourself, your views of others, and also about how as a society, we can do so much more for those whose voices we often do not hear.

*Photo of Sara Farb by Michael Cooper.