The action in Madhuri Shekar’s ‘Queen’ centers on academic ethics and the science of bees .
Uma Paranjpe, left, and Kjerstine Anderson star as researchers exploring declining bee populations in “Queen” for TheatreWorks Silicon Valley.There’s a gargantuan breakthrough on the horizon, but not at the prestigious South Bay institution located in Palo Alto that specializes in gargantuan breakthroughs.
The TheatreWorks Silicon Valley and EnActe Arts co-production of sharply-penned “Queen,” by San Jose native Madhuri Shekar, offers many glimpses of various power dynamics. There is not just the pressure of preparing an evil pesticide company takedown, but how women’s agency must function in high-level academia. There’s even the self-immolation one must endure to engage in dating smarmy, insufferable tech bros.
While the play has patches that don’t carry the same urgency, director Miriam A. Laube moves the massive swaths of dialogue quite smoothly, despite the play’s penchant for hovering near didacticism at times. Where the play works much more effectively is when it removes itself from its own stasis, forcing its principals to barrel towards a necessary resolution that may destroy each young career.
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