There’s sibling rivalry, after which there’s the pitched fraternal battle between Lincoln and Sales space, the fatefully named brothers on the coronary heart of Suzanne-Lori Parks’ devastating psychodrama Card Trick. If the playwright, who gained a Pulitzer Prize for this wealthy and beguiling play, had named her characters Cain and Abel, she would have captured the tragic inevitability of the matter. Nevertheless it would not have had the recurring string of merciless, essentially American absurdity that made this noir hybrid of Ready for Godot and True West, which premiered in the summertime of 2001, one of the crucial standard performs of the period. A younger, bloody, merciless and ridiculous century. Read our review of Chris Klimek.
By way of June 23 on the Spherical Home Theater in Bethesda. About two and a half hours, together with a break. roundhousetheatre.org.
