Spoiler Paragraph for Birds of a Feather at Greenhouse Theater Center

I think the ending of the play is really bittersweet. Silo and Roy's relationship has ended but a new relationship breaking penguin norms (between Tango [Kirby, in this scene], who is Silo and Roy's daughter, and another female penguin) is just beginning. Silo and Roy were saying goodbye to each other, and Silo tells Roy about his new partner, Scrappy, and Roy assumes he is talking about another male penguin, but Silo reveals to him that Scrappy is a female penguin. And the exact same thing happens when Roy is talking to his daughter Tango. He presumes Tango's new partner is a male, but it turns out to be a female. It is really touching to see this coming-out moment meeting acceptance in this play that has been mostly about the struggle of being gay. In this moment you get to see the beauty of acceptance and love no matter what your sexuality is. And I'm sure it is really hard for Roy to hear the same words having different impacts on him from two penguins he loved. Roy and Silo's breakup breaks my heart. You have grown to love this relationship. You have seen it grow from the beginning to the end. You can't help but feel like Silo's reasoning might not be because of his own wants but because of what Pale Male has told him is masculine and right. And that makes me really angry to think that someone could be in a happy relationship if it wasn't for outside influences. Return to the review.