Rarely will see you a drama so achingly contemporary, so uniform in its depiction of diversity, as 'Trigonometry'. It features a cast of characters of differing race, nationality, class, religion, sexual orientation and lifestyle; all set in a trendy cafe. Throw in recreational weed smoking, conversational swearing, a subplot about a very conventional character getting a tattoo (something that might have been genuinely cutting edge about 20 years ago) and the mix is complete. When at one point two characters played a game of "Who am I?" with the personae of drag queen Ru Paul and feminist author Margaret Attwood, it was hard to tell if this was self-parody or self-saborage. At the heart of the story is a a couple who both find themselves attracted the same third party, the mysteriously magnetic Ray (mysterious to me, at any rate). I'm sure there's a good drama to be written about unconventional partnerships; a good start might be to throw out the manifestos and let the story speak for itself.
Review of Trigonometry
