Trophy Boys @ MCC Theater

The Play: Trophy Boys, the four-member debate team from an all boy’s high school is given one hour to come up with arguments to defend the prompt on why feminism is bad for women in this satire about patriarchal privilege and toxic masculinity that purposefully casts actors who were assigned female identities at birth to play the male roles.

Written by: Emmanuelle Mattana        Directed by: Danya Taymor

One good thing: Matt Saunders' set of a classroom at an elite private school for girls—complete with a gallery of she-roes on the wall—is so pitch-perfect that that you can almost smell the mix of book glue and Billie Eilish Eau de Parfum

One not-so-great thing: The characters may be male but this is just a variation on the “angry young woman” play in which characters muse about how women are mistreated and then express their anger with some kind of ritualistic dance; Taymor calibrated it perfectly in the Tony-nominated “John Proctor is the Villain” but less so here