Description
Angela (the wry Lisa Joyce) and Allison (the nervy Tanya Fischer) come to New York looking to make things happen—or rather, looking for things to happen to them—in Gina Gionfriddo’s witty, intellectually engaging dark comedy, whose central thematic concern (the link between personal and mass hysteria) is elaborated through interlocking plots. Trip Cullman’s astute direction for stageFARM draws compellingly heightened comedic performances from the cast (which includes Logan Marshall-Green as a hilariously self-indulgent writer). Behind the ultra-articulate polish of Gionfriddo’s writing is a larger question: our secret agency in the operations of the world.—AF