Search Party’s Alia Shawkat plays a lost young woman named Mae whose aging father (Succession’s Peter Friedman) is being treated for cancer in Clare Barron’s extraordinary play, directed in this rivicaal—as in its 2014 Off Broadway premiere—by the highly adept Anne Kauffman (Marjorie Prime). It’s about the denial of death, but it unfurls mostly in the mode of weird character comedy, with detours into gnarly and frustrated horniness; whether Mae tries to escape into banality or fantasy, time’s one-way arrow keeps piercing through. Caleb Eberhart, Nadine Malouf, Nina White, Spenser Granese and Misha Brooks complete the promising cast.
