By Celia Wren
Washington Post The Realistic Joneses” is the only play by Will Eno to have reached Broadway, notwithstanding his work on the misleadingly titled “Skittles Commercial: The Broadway Musical.” Some might see his scant presence on the Great White Way as testifying to the limited appeal of his stylistically daring, plot-light, intermittently dark and deadpan scripts, which have been widely performed in less glitzy arenas. But Eno doesn’t yearn for popularity, in any case. “I am trying to write things with a purpose and meaning and actionable point to them,” he says. “So I don’t get too hung up on whether somebody likes something or not.” A now-wry, now-sober riff on marriage and the awareness of death, featuring two sometimes awkward and secretive small-town couples who share a surname, “Realistic Joneses” is receiving a Washington area premiere at Spooky Action Theater. Under the direction of Gillian Drake, Brandon McCoy (“Veep”) and other actors interpret a play that, Eno says, acknowledges “the way we can sort of carry our own mortality around like it’s a big, dirty secret. And in wanting to hide that from other people, we end up accidentally hiding all sorts of other parts of ourselves.” READ MORE
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