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Whatever was being argued over before is still being argued over.
His daughter, Lucy DeVito, is also his daughter onstage, a.k.a.
Character A, or Amelia.
Sam, a big fan of old sweatpants, isnt quite a hoarder, but hes close.
A says, Clean up!
B says, No!
In the words ofMortal Kombat: Fight.
You could have done more for that boy.
They dont have full interior lives so much as things Rebeck wants them to say.
You got a job interview?
Something wrong with the old job?
You always said you liked that job.
They restructured, Amelia replies.
Later, Foster to Sam: Did she get that new job?
Sam: Oh, I dont think she knows yet.
Still later, Sam to Amelia: Oh, you got that job?
Amelia: Im still at the old job for now.
The generality is flagrant enough to make you cringe.
That perfunctory quality a feeling of being put together quickly out of easy parts pervadesI Need That.
People do or, yes, One mans trash is another mans treasure.
Is it any wonder that Sams mountains of stuff will become a metaphor for privilege?
Or that the play will eventually, when it has nowhere else to go, turn sentimental?
But no actor can make a show work when a play is so set on phoning it in.
Sometimes a play reviews itself.
I Need Thatis at Roundabout Theatre Company at the American Airlines Theatre.
