Last fall, Refracted Theatre Company produced Laura Winters’s dystopic drama Coronation , in which the failure to elect a woman president leads to revolution, environmental disaster, and a figurehead monarchy in the United States. Jojo Jones’s Veal at A Red Orchid Theatre (directed by Dado) also focuses on a queen during dystopic times. Queen Chelsea of North America (Alexandra Chopson) presides over a blasted and war-torn landscape. The young monarch is visited by three former middle-school classmates—all of them bruised, dirty, and covered in rags that capture what’s going on in the outside world before they open their mouths.

Franny (Jojo Brown) has come along with Noa (Alice Wu) and Lulu (Carmia Imani) to beg Chelsea to help her get insulin for her sister—since the civil war tha

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