Why is this waiter angry? You’ll figure it out. Photos by Andre Callot All credit to the director and actors of How To Get Into Buildings, the new play at the Brick. Without Katherine Brook’s relentless, searching direction and the game performances of her six performers, Trish Harnetiaux’s new show could have been less the fireball catastrophe that (I think) it wants to be, and more an interminable mash of free associative gobbly-gook. That reads meaner than I intend it to though. I liked the writing, I swear, I did. And I enjoyed this show. Why? Well, let’s try to figure that out together. First, the basics of the story: there’s a car crash, two bodies, some red snapper. There’s a convention center, a diner, and “other places that are harder to articulate but sure to exist.” There’s one couple that meets-cute, another couple that splits-bloody. There’s TED talks, time travel (or “time… Read More
