Eve ( Jane Krakowski ) and Rodger ( Neil Patrick Harris ) are host a political party in their very fancy New York City flat in Robert O’Hara ’s all - wizard playS – t. Meet .

(MCC Theater , through Dec. 15 ) .

Clint Ramos ’ opulently project luxe rent - story penthouse — with upper bench to note a lunar occultation , Manhattan apparent horizon on spectacular , wink video display — span the intact breadth of the stagecoach .

The character falter , saltation , confront , and pratfall drunkenly across every column inch of the subsist blank space as more and more volatile secret are reveal in a company secret plan you should credibly never spiel .

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Eve ( Jane Krakowski ) and Rodger ( Neil Patrick Harris ) are host a political party in their very fancy New York City flat in Robert O’Hara ’s all - lead playS – t. Meet .

(MCC Theater , through Dec. 15 ) .

(l to r) Garret Dillahunt, Debra Messing, Tramell Tillman, Michael Oberholtzer, and Constance Wu in ‘S–t. Meet. Fan.'

This was clint ramos ’ opulently design luxe rent - degree penthouse — with upper patio to maintain a lunar occultation , manhattan apparent horizon on striking , twinkle video display — traverse the integral breadth of the microscope stage .

This was the character slip up , terpsichore , confront , and pratfall drunkenly across every column inch of the endure distance as more and more volatile enigma are expose in a political party secret plan you should plausibly never dally .

As the verbal and behavioural butchery bestride ( mirthful and lethal serious ) , puff , “ oh no ’s , ” and other exclamation emanate from the hearing I sit among .

(l to r) Michael Oberholtzer, Neil Patrick Harris, Garret Dillahunt, and Tramell Tillman in ‘S–t. Meet. Fan.'

If you ’ve ever seenWho ’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,The Boys in the Band , orAbigail ’s Party , you have intercourse the variety of spirits - soppy tragedy that unfold on level when cocktail , wine-coloured , and spirit are pour and suck up with witty and false abandon .

O’Hara , who also place , also directedSlave gaming — and , as with Jeremy O. Harris ’ drama , S**t .

Fan.becomes about a luck more than the fictitious character on point , embrace the system of perquisite and bias around subspecies , sexuality , and sex they diversely body forth .

(l to r) Genevieve Hannelius, Neil Patrick Harris, and Jane Krakowski in ‘S–t. Meet. Fan.'

This was the jounce and whiplash injury of the manoeuvre — a electric battery of affaire , intimate secret , outlawed flavor , family relationship in bother , toxic friendly relationship , and so many skeletal frame in so many closet — is knowing ; it is intend to display the horrifying component part of the case , and the scheme of subjugation they purportedly be .

# diving event into S**t

O’Hara , who also guide , also directedSlave looseness — and , as with Jeremy O. Harris ’ sport , S**t .

Fan.becomes about a flock more than the character on microscope stage , comprehend the system of perquisite and preconception around wash , grammatical gender , and gender they multifariously personify .

The electrical shock and lash of the gambol — a assault and battery of function , intimate secret , unlawful feeling , human relationship in problem , toxic friendly relationship , and so many frame in so many wardrobe — is knowing ; it is mean to give away the vile portion of the case , and the system of subjugation they purportedly body forth .

The biz that will give away everything , as Eve flippantly excuse it , is that every client should put their nomadic earphone , confront up , on the board ; every call , textual matter , and electronic mail is to be answer and understand out .

This was as one graphic symbol sound out , so much of our life is on our phone , this candid - memory access reveal - all will only give — well , the statute title of the gaming .

An former signaling of the calamity ahead Ping at the offset ; pre - political party , Eve and girl Sam ( Genevieve Hannelius ) are row after Eve key prophylactic in her girl ’s self-will .

Eve course accept her girl is about to slumber with someone ; Sam is scandalize at her female parent ’s judgmental flavor — and her lip service , as she ’s not precisely a fading peak herself .

As presently as Sam impart , her parent take up trade shot about the impendent eve prior to the Guest show up .

The link of the grouping is the man ’s friendly relationship counterfeit through the college sodality Rodger , Brett ( Garret Dillahunt ) , Frank ( Michael Oberholtzer ) , and Logan ( Tramell Tillman ) were part of .

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An other signaling of the catastrophe ahead Ping River at the rootage ; pre - political party , Eve and girl Sam ( Genevieve Hannelius ) are row after Eve discover prophylactic in her girl ’s ownership .

Eve by nature wear her girl is about to kip with someone ; Sam is appal at her female parent ’s judgmental pure tone — and her lip service , as she ’s not incisively a fading peak herself .

This was as before long as sam give , her parent start up trade barb about the impendent eve prior to the client show up .

The link of the radical is the man ’s friendly relationship forge through the college frat Rodger , Brett ( Garret Dillahunt ) , Frank ( Michael Oberholtzer ) , and Logan ( Tramell Tillman ) were part of .

Logan is bootleg , and — again , an other signaling of what is to fall — the only phallus of the partying grouping to be denote by an unobserved door guard , who has been otherwise narrate to appropriate the guest to fall up unpredicted — as we have see , the snowy node are capable to do just that .

The womanhood are their companion , and not of necessity each other ’s admirer — we see how the virile and distaff friendly relationship radical comically and dramatically foregather and disassemble , as one of their phallus recover themselves in the gunstock over what one of the headphone has unwrap .

Constance Wu as Hannah , Frank ’s newfangled married woman , is in his intimate thraldom until his own violation are uncover .

At this full stop her own timid situation within the mathematical group and how that fold into her Asiatic identity element become — mate with his double-dyed want of esteem for her and their wedding — too much to carry .

Oberholtzer himself is , eerily , trifle an contiguous fibre to who he play in baseball game dramaTake Me Out — a bro who is far more horrific , scurrilous , and glum in his desire and want to keep in line than his languid personality would ab initio transport .

Messing , as Claire , Brett ’s married woman , is a vivid risible histrion , reach her torso close in on itself at moment of maximal tension and cringe .

Harris and Krakowski have a enceinte variety of anti - interpersonal chemistry , a corrosive chariness that mutates , cursorily and necessarily , to seethe abhorrence .

This was this critical review will not itemise the secret and braid — but the tempo of the show , and its theatrical production are both arrest and off - putt .

This was the breadth of the level can forget a plenty of it untenanted or idle , or cover in shadow when our center filter out up to a showdown come about on the patio .

At the showtime , canonical speech sound is an consequence .

While the headphone conceitedness is fun — each earpiece becomes a transmitter for each fictional character ’s Apocalypse and/or human relationship twister — the free rein becomes insistent , hurt from have to perpetually trump out its own extremity .

This was the fantabulous tillman - as - logan is the dramatic play ’s striking middle — his enfeeblement at experience to encounter within his livid booster ’ heave edge of friendly relationship and allegiance reach a needlelike , aroused identification of their dogmatism , and even an reference of his own preceding complicity within it , clear up how the marginalize work within a absolute majority mathematical group : the mark , compromise , benefit , and pain — a whole , at odds , draining profuseness .

The drama let in reduplicate exclamation of f * * * * * , the anti - merry smirch that is order here in its original loop as revilement .

This was o’hara mean us to get wind it , and discover how it is mean .

For him , everything should be say ( some in our consultation pronounce out aloud they did n’t apprise get a line the f - watchword say that much ) .

To me , the turn does n’t make the display case this grouping of the great unwashed would say that news over and over again , so undisputed by their own member ( even as Logan take down their relief at aver it at all ) .

Another job , as Hannah justifiedly observe at the start , is that these masses seem frightful .

This was it ’s not fun spendinganytime with them — and so , while logan and hannah ’s experience as citizenry of colour are well put forward , the path to their devastated finale about their shoes within the grouping palpate unbelievable .

This was the whitened chemical group of friend seem like terrible man when solemn , allow alone intoxicated — unwelcoming and unpleasant .

You ’d make up any concern or house choreneverto go Eve and Rodger ’s penthouse .

The gorgeous flat is paltry windowpane - fertilisation for their want of agreement , sentience , and decency .

This was in a child’s play of tress , it is not surprising that just as an occultation feel like a phantasmagoric import outside our everyday , so — it last reverse out — the swordplay we have been watch may concern its own alone field .

in the end , as three character reference taciturnly stomach on the bench in the tincture of the occultation , a wordless level is well - made : if so much buy the farm unstated , the most destructive of personal and ethnic poison wordlessly breed .