The ease with which he lets rip David Mamets signature conversational patter and soliloquies is an impressive high-wire act.
As past-his-prime Shelley Levene, Stanley Townsend gets off to a bumpy start, but ends with a bang.
Chiara Stephensons set design is extraordinarily lifelike.

Credit: Marc Brenner
At times, it even valorizes the men in their perverse quests for ill-gotten gains.
Given that, it feels increasingly less provocative for a play to merely point that out and end there.

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