Thin and intense, the teenage Lucy (Jordyn DiNatale) scrubs and scrubs a blood stain on a ratty rug while her attractive, blonde-haired mother Justine (Katya Campbell) rambles on about fatties on reality shows. Whatever happened, they must evacuate the premises and take refuge in a strange man’s home.

Misfits boxed in a Spartan apartment-- the mystery is just beginning. Is this part of an identity protection program? Protective of her anti-social daughter, Justine warms to the young, hesitant guardian David (a fine Caleb Scott) while the explosive Lucy recoils against his kind overtures. Imminently appealing, Ms. Campbell is a natural making her relationship to David and Lucy quite touching.

At school, Lucy meets another odd child, Quinn (Owen Campbell). Both are being tested and observed for violent behavior by a zipped up, socially inept medical type Charlotte (Colleen Werthmann). Comic relief seeps in during their awkward courtship with Quinn garnering many of the evening’s laughs.

Director Adrienne Campbell-Holt taps into the dark humor, but the complicated genetic relationships and plot twists pile up and then, too quickly, unspool. Violence births and ends "Recall" a sometimes tonally slippery, but intriguing play.
EYE ON THE ARTS, NY -- Celia Ipiotis