Another blogpost on Essential Self Defense

Saw it last week. Hated it. And to be clear, I am a subscriber to Playwrights Horizons, New York Theater Workshop and a quite a few other non-profit theater companies. I am at the theater every week. I don't get in free. So for all the bits flying around the digital space about bloggers flacking this play, here's my two cents: I'm sorry I didn't walk out at the intermission. I felt sorry for the actors who were clearly working hard, but were in a play that should never have been staged. And while I complain that companies like MTC can exhibit hardening of the attitudes in their lack of risk-taking in their line-up, the choice to stage ESD at PH betrayed a serious lapse of judgment.