"This Beautiful Future" Is an Irony of Love and Hope Among the Anguish of War
Teenage love is complicated at the best of times. When it happens during war the stakes are beyond imagining. Such is the setting of This Beautiful Future, playing at the Off-Broadway Cherry Lane Theatre. The relationship of protagonists Otto and Elodie is revealed in fragments of time, the action played out in one set, within four walls, a sparse room in the now empty home of a transported Jewish family. By virtue o…