NEW YORK—On reading a reviewer’s script of Lucy Teitler’s “Engagements,” I thought: “Dear, another contemporary, hippy-dippy work. And I’ve got to schlep to the Upper West Side to see it.” However, I was startled to encounter a remarkable, taut, spicy satire of contemporary manners.
The insights are revealed to us as experienced by classical literary scholar heroine/antiheroine Lauren (Ana Nogueira). Like with so many people, her character seems to be changeable.
Set in Boston today, “Engagements” follows Lauren and her best friend, the beautiful Allison, a true-blue heroine (Jennifer Kim), as they weave their lives around men and manners.
(L–R) The engaged couple, Allison (Jennifer Kim) and Mark (Michael Stahl-David), and Allison's best friend Lauren, who wants to find a way to reveal that Mark is not the good guy he seems to be. Ana Nogueira
