A Good Day to Me Not to You, Kogod Cradle, Arena Stage, Washington, DC
Constance Zayroun in A Good Day to Me Not to You in the Kogod Cradle at Arena Stage, through May 3. Photo credit: Daniel Rader. A Good Day to Me Not to You (into which I would desperately like to insert a comma), the title of Arena Stage’s current offering by Lameece Issaq in its Kogod Cradle space, draws its title from a conversation conveyed by the central character early in the play. In a bit of conflict with a woman whose space she has disturbed, the offended one wants to ensure that the woman infringing on her space understands that she is by no means wishing “a good day” to the offender, but only to herself. That contretemps is just one of many our central character will relate to us during the 90 minutes in which we, her audience, become her confidante and to whom she will relate the story of her life in intimate and sometimes painful detail. The playwright keeps her anonymous – the program calls her “the Narrator.” She doesn’t even have a name, or, if she does, finds ...