A satisfying meal of a play, though later reflection may lead to some mild, critical indigestion.
The actors are all wonderful, with Laura Ramadei's character the hub the others circle, either as current or past lovers, or as a biological relative or more simply, a flatmate. She negotiates all her relationships with genuine finesse, until she can't, and it's fun seeing her well-ordered house fall apart emotionally. Other standouts are, as the review suggests, Hiram Delgado (a more animated Mark Ruffalo-type) and Claire Siebers whose opening monologue first tells us of the theme of a struggle for, and a haunting by, real human connection. (Minor directorial faults include having the actors rattle off their lines, most egregiously when playing a board game, when they'd realistically have had to ponder the funny and trenchant observations they offer.)
Whether that theme sufficiently resounds at play's end with a few too many digressions is debatable, but Catya McMullen has written a real play, and not the "let's break the fourth wall and offer little plot and much polemic" that bedevils much of NY theater these days.
