A play about preparing for a play must have seemed a good idea when playwright Annie Baker sat down at the keyboard — it seems like a good idea now, when I look at the words — but something didn’t gel. I left the theater grateful to skilled actors for making a limp script stand as long and as firmly as it did.
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