The versatile set easily transforms into a host of other spaces through the use of furniture and a doorframe on castors, which the performers manipulate with seamless efficiency.Д®than McSweeny's unrelenting production churns forward as Bradshaw's short, cruel scenes cut from one to the next. Scenic designer Brian Sidney Bembridge crafts Michael's shoebox with subtle suggestion: Empty bottles of top-shelf liquor occupy space on the upstage wall next to other props and costume pieces. Outwardly, Bradshaw's play exposes the folly of stuffing millionaires with giant senses of entitlement into tiny shoeboxes and stacking them on top of one another. 'That should give me the right to have peace in my home.' Has he read the condo bylaws? Following a confrontation, Ted starts rolling a bowling ball across the hardwood floors. Sarah tries to help Michael kick the habit by meditating with him between sessions of violent kinky sex (choreographed with utmost realism and nudity by Yehuda Duenyas).Д®ven with everything he has, Michael can't seem to concentrate in his new home: His prickly upstairs neighbor Ted (an absurdly vindictive Jeff Biehl) constantly blasts heavy metal while his daughter runs amok. He's willing to reconsider his position if Michael lands a multi-million-dollar account with a famous basketball player (Otoja Abit). Senior partner Mark (Peter McCabe) insists that Michael hasn't been passed up for being black, but for being an alcoholic. 'You should be living in a five-million-dollar apartment,' fellow lawyer and romantic interest Sarah (Susannah Flood) tells him, positing that the only reason he's 40 and not yet a partner is because he's black. The only problem is that Michael doesn't live in average America, but the land of unquenchable greed. While his latest, Fulfillment (now making its New York debut at the Flea Theater), isn't as viscerally revolting, Bradshaw's mГ©lange of race, power, and ambition will leave more than a few audience members feeling queasy.ДЇrom the vantage point of the average American, our protagonist Michael (Gbenga Akinnagbe) has everything: a well-paying job at a prestigious law firm, an exciting sex life, and a $1.5 million apartment in one of Manhattan's coolest neighborhoods.

His last show in New York, Intimacy (2014 with the New Group), soaked the front rows of the audience in simulated bodily fluids. And the other two Steves are really proud of him.To call playwright Thomas Bradshaw a 'provocateur' is to make a serious understatement. вЂњA third Steve, making music in the garage,вЂќ she reports. TheyвЂ™re in her head, these multiple Steves, but one of the most frolicsome moments of вЂњPlano,вЂќ and cleverest bits of stagecraft, involves a meeting between them. Steve cheats on Genevieve, they get divorced, and he splits in two. You can feel her heart shrivel from neglect. вЂњYouвЂ™re my best friend.вЂќ The words are devastatingly distant, bare of genuine emotion.

John, whose real name is Juan, is gay he spends his spare time dancing at a cowboy club in Plano. Its action stalked by a silent male figure called the Faceless Ghost, this is a play about women devoted to, and consumed with, men who donвЂ™t return the favor.

On a set (by Daniel Zimmerman) whose parched lawn spills over the lip of the Connelly Theater stage, it slip-slides through time in a brightly heightened reality that belies the haunting at its core. Life moves at a clip in вЂњPlano,вЂќ and Taylor ReynoldsвЂ™s production glides right along.

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