Director Aaron Willis has kept all the period appropriate references to VCRs, Quentin Tarantino’s breakout films, and the release of the Tommy Lee & Pamela Anderson sex tape intact. He and sound designer Lindsay Taft have also done a plum job of giving the piece an authentic late ’90s soundtrack—Radiohead, Green Day, etc.—that thankfully never overwhelms the actor’s dialogue. RENT really is discussed, in a withering appraisal by Petra, who’s developed a tenuous friendship with a lonely patron (Mike McPhaden, in a nicely nuanced turn) at the strip club where she’s secretly taken up dancing again. Loneliness is a disease that creeps up on all the characters in Shinn’s play, though it’s more obvious with some; Stephen’s, for instance, is outright and desperate, and exaggerated by Mark’s repression and new lifestyle choices (which drive Lewis’ still-pining character to distraction).
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