Spin Theater Wit
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In Spin, playwright Penny Penniston makes an especially mystifying attempt to put her audience on the defensive. The gesture comes across as cheap, childish, and unnecessary—a superficial and simplistic bid for depth and complexity. Worst of all, it undermines Jeremy Wechsler’s sharp Theater Wit production—the first in Wit’s new, three-theater complex—and obscures the fact that the rest of Penniston’s play is actually pretty good.
While Danielle’s off taking her shower, Brent gets a surprise visit from his old agency buddies Redge and Jack. A committed amoralist who lives to sell, Redge goes back a long way with Brent and still misses their partnership. He and Jack are about to give a presentation for a wildly lucrative beer account, but they know that what they’ve got is crap. They need the old Brent magic. So much for the eightfold path.
