NEW YORK—Leah Nanako Winkler’s “Kentucky,” now showing at Ensemble Studio Theatre, starts out lightly. A trio of girl singers, Merissa Czyz, Samantha Sembler, and Shannon Tyo, serenade us with an energetic hip-hop style, and we know we’re in for an evening of flat-out hilarity.
But that’s only part of the deal. The scene shifts to a therapy session in New York. Hiro (Satomi Blair) complains to her therapist, Larry (Curran Connor), that her sister, Sophie (Sasha Diamond), is to be married down in Kentucky to a man she’s known for only six months.
Hiro’s got to get Sophie away from that land of limited possibilities and get her back to New York, where she can live a productive and happy life. Hiro can even get her a job as an administrative assistant at the company where Hiro works.
