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Article: Adam Rapp: dark passages. (Season Preview 2002-03).(theatre New York) (theater review)
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- American Theatre
- Article date:
- October 1, 2002
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You think you've got troubles? You should be a character in an Adam Rapp play. Seeing one of this prolific 34-year-old New Yorker's dramas--in some cases, even hearing a cursory plot summary--can be enough to convince you that there's been an angel in your pocket all your life.
Take the pair of ill-fated homeboys in Faster, currently running at the Rattlestick Theatre in Manhattan. Desperate to escape their nowhere hometown in the Midwest, they decide to raise cash by selling a girl they've picked up--but the buyer turns out to be the Devil.
Consider the twisted clan at the center of Trueblinka, also now on the boards in New York, under the aegis of Last ...