Summary
The long-standing friendship among three men is thrown into chaos when one of them buys a large, expensive, and almost completely white painting.
Thursday, September 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM Sep 25, 2025, 7:00 PM
Wasn’t really into the play, but I thought the actors did good work with it. The sticky wicket for me is that these characters don’t really have a lot of humanity to them; for the majority of the show, they’re too busy parroting archetypal points of view at each other and could really be played by anybody.
We never really have a chance to get to know who any of them are or what their resting friendship dynamic is like, so I’m leery of describing their conversation as revealing any particularly profound truths about people. There’s a canonical interpretation that “this is what male friendship is like!” that I think is trading in stereotypes. That the play eventually makes an emotional appeal feels a bit unearned and anticlimactic.
I kinda think the playwright just wants to talk smack about everyone and show off some wit about a heady topic. I got some sensible chuckles, a photo of some recognizable stars at curtain call, and not a ton else. Seems likely to recoup!