Homecoming

 An adoptee searching for her birth-mother is far from a new topic, but Lauren Weedman's solo, Homecoming, is a cut above typical fare because she tackles the quest for identity not just from her own perspective but from those of her eccentric mom and loving but snotty sister. Painted, too, with a mildy caricaturing but still-believable brush, are her African-American boyfriend, a bearlike counselor and a courteous, control-freak adoption agency clerk.

A tad longish without intermission, Homecoming sometimes pushes too hard, but some unexpectedly touching moments make it clear Weedman's a talent (not to mention, in between some segments, a mesmerising dancer).