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Three years of solitary writing time turns out to be productive.
You see gestures and ideas repeated, many different attempts to get at similar feelings.
Heres a drama where Branden Jacobs-Jenkins both sums up and reconfigures the present moment.
Thats a straightforward and direct premise, though if you know Jacobs-Jenkinsswide-ranging tasteyoull assume a twist is coming.
These are all plausibly funny and yet revealing.
She isall these people are some form of unhappythough perhaps not in the ways he thinks she is.
You feel sorry for someone else, she insists to him, and I feel sorry for her too.
TyoMVP of the past 12 months Off Broadway.
(Speaking of millennial touchpoints, brace for an incredible needle drop over the closing bows.)
Theres also a tradition of rose-tinted where are we now?
Those horror elements and intrusions from Death provide a bracing sense of unease and distance.
No one is going to get too comfortable with each other on this porch, no matter howcross-fadedthey get.
(Or are we, like Death claims, caring for them too?)
We need this everyday theater.
To understand each other, we have to gather in the dark.
The Comeuppanceis at the Signature Theatre.
