Review: ‘The Staircase’ ascends theatrical heights at South Coast Repertory

Late in the world premiere of fledgling playwright Noa Gardner’s compelling “The Staircase,” an 84-year-old Hawaiian mother confronts her middle-aged son with a universal truth about the generational burdens often handed down within families.
In pidgin English/Hawaiian Creole cadences, she warns, “… cuz I can see dat you’re carryin’ something you don’t need to carry.”
Now on South Coast Repertory’s Argyros stage, “The Staircase&r