Fresh Voices Review "An Accident"
By Liz Beck - Senior RMU When I sat down to watch An Accident , I was expecting a heart-wrenching, highly emotional portrait of a couple trying to work through a traumatic event that had left one of them comatose. While the play does involve two people trying to work past a car accident, and their individual faults in it, the show is markedly different from what I thought I was going to watch. An Accident immerses us in the story of Libby, a sarcastic, complicated and optimistic woman confined to a bed after being run over by a car. We also meet Anton, the kind, passionate and very guilty man who hit her. Libby awakens after an undetermined time to find she has almost no ability to move her body, and it is unclear whether or not she will regain control. Anton has been visiting her, seemingly out of remorse, and although at first Libby is bitter and guarded, the two gradually warm up to each other. You wouldn’t think that a play on a topic this depressin