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Dramatizing Desire and Addiction in Jonah and The White Chip
A twisty, emotional drama and a straight-down-the-line recovery comedy.
There’s a scene, early on, when Ana (Gabby Beans) has invited Jonah (Hagan Oliveras, with all the gawky charm of a Chalamet) up to her boarding-school dorm room, and in a sweet, awkward teen way, he’s stumbled into talking about how everything makes him think about sex: “We’ll be stretching for soccer and I’m just staring at someone’s — anyone’s! Beans and director Danya Taymor (who loves a darkened stage, as seen here, in Pass Over, and Heroes of the Fourth Turning) do the work of pinning the evasive circumstances of Bonds’s writing down to recognizably human actions and traits, like they’re battening down a frigate in a storm. Even while his avatar is in his worst circumstances, Daniels has Steven find the absurdity in his decision-making with jokes about how every Kentucky airport bar seems to have bourbon and the experience of heading from a DUI arrest to judging children’s theater performances.
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