All the Rage

Description
Despite its title, Keith Reddin’s play—a postmodern look at emotion in dumbed-down, doped-up America—is filled with comic apathy, not rage. At first, it’s a crime drama; then the script becomes a parade of characters trapped in a strip-mall show. Anger makes the characters silly, especially as Reddin stretches the plot to ensure all ten meet one another, and Daryl Boling’s direction is largely hands-off, with much said but little done. The subdued tone never connects the scenes, and the only thing that sells is the acting.—Aaron Riccio