When the AP releases an interview with the “president” that’s so incoherent it makes you feel more confident in a toddler’s ability to verbalize thought, when a lady Donald Trump is a contender to lead France, and when each five-minute NPR hourly news summary seems to sow fresh hell into your day, it’s hard to see a play like Berlin Diary and not get vaguely panicky, much less review it fairly.
I’m going to do my best though, because you should see it. Berlin Diary, presented by Hand2Mouth and CoHo Productions and directed by Hand2Mouth’s Jonathan Walters, is the self-referential story from Oregon playwright Andrea Stolowitz, who delved into Berlin’s complicated history and tried to write a play about her family in the process (yes, this is a play about writing a play that is the play it’s about; please keep an open mind).