What the company does here is create a world of uber-reality by stepping in and out of their roles to present themselves in a play intended to pry laughter out of a melodramatic situation. The level of success at the Majestic is as good as it gets... anywhere. The show is most enjoyable.
Aaron Posner's play is a little bit loose, a comedy with tragic overtones, that follows the original pretty closely, but moves it into our very own time and place.
This wonderful company, in this remarkable space they have to work in, moves the audience not only with words and actions, but by shifting the audience from place to place in the building.
This work is certainly never dull. However it never provides a new idea or thought ... nor does it leave us feeling that we have experienced a new work, but only a second-rate version of something we have known for eons.
