Lethal Injections: Evening at the Talk House

Wallace Shawn’s new play Evening at the Talk House begins with an extended period where the audience mingles with the cast while servers pass out drinks and snacks, and this goes on for just long enough to produce a sense of discomfort. The audience would all quiet down for a bit sometimes as if they were waiting for the play to start, but then they would be forced to resume their quiet, buzzy talking. A lady in front of me finally confessed to one of the actors that she had “run out