Theater Review: Second Stage (2SCTNYC) brings Pulitzer- and Tony-winning playwright TracyLetts' raw adult comedy, 'Linda Vista,' to Broadway
Tracy Letts, the profusely gifted playwright who also happens to be a brilliant actor, or vice versa, is working in an elevated sitcom mode as well as a revealing personal vein in. The self-inflicted woes of a middle-aged white man, victim of his own inebriating cocktail of testosterone and narcissism, might seem a tone-deaf subject for character study in our current moment of masculinity vivisected and reconstructed.
The "nice view" that comes so uneasily to Wheeler is indicated in the play's Spanish-language title, which also happens to be the name of the sadly nondescript San Diego apartment complex where he relocates after the emasculating experience of camping out on a cot in his unseen ex-wife's garage. He followed her from Illinois to Southern California to be closer to their son, who's now a "zombie" teenager.
Nonetheless, he accepts Paul and Margaret's offer to set him up with their friend Jules , despite rolling his eyes upon learning she's a "life coach" with a Master's in Happiness. The two couples' double-date at a karaoke bar gives Wheeler ample opportunity to reveal himself as a chronic contrarian, or as he puts it while listing popular musicians he hates, "an astute observer of the time in which I live.
That happens when Wheeler finds himself providing shelter for Minnie a 26-year-old, pregnant Vietnamese American who lives in the same building and knocks on his door after fleeing her abusive boyfriend.
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