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Shit. Meet. Fan. Tells Us Lots That We Already Know
Neil Patrick Harris and Jane Krakowski star in Robert O’Hara’s self-described “blistering vulgar satire.” It delivers one of those three things.
“This play is a blistering vulgar satire on Male Toxicity and White Privilege,” writes O’Hara in a script note labeled “Trigger Warning.” “Allow the laughter to indict the audience and lure them into a sense of comfort. Krakowski is the first to receive applause: As the show begins, lights pop up on her, wearing chic red shorts in the spotless kitchen and essentially playing her character from Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt with the flourishes scaled down a bit. Now we’ve got a middlebrow not-quite-Broadway not-quite-comedy, and although O’Hara is clearly going for bite — partly as a result of running the idea that “everyone has secrets” through the Large Hadron Collider of American race and gender politics — Shit.
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