Hannah Logan was a San Diego Theatre Critics Circle award winner last month for her performance in 2014's creepy Bug , produced by Ion Theatre in Hillcrest. Logan is back in an Ion production, and she's the best reason to see the relationship drama Kin , written by Bathsheba Doran. Logan is both hilarious and pathetic-and, come to think of it, hilariously pathetic-as Helena, the kind of luckless would-be actress who wants to play her namesake in A Midsummer Night's Dream but ends up cast as Bottom. Her character's foibles are much more interesting than the play's principal relationship, the one between an uptight academic (Rhianna Basore) and an Irish-born personal trainer (Evan Kendig). The resolution of that uneasy courtship is a true head-scratcher, but there's enough of Logan, plus touching turns by Donal Pugh and Katie Copeland, to recommend Kin .
Kin runs through April 4.