The Disappear @ Audible's Minetta Lane Theatre

The Play: The Disappear; a self-important misfire about the costs of being an artist in which Hamish Linklater plays a narcissistic filmmaker and Miriam Silverman his long-suffering wife who also happens to be a bestselling novelist

Written and directed by: Erica Schmidt        

One good thing: Brett J. Banakis’ set nicely splits the difference between the kind of early 20th century dacha that would have been the perfect setting for the kind of Chekov play this one so clearly wants to be and the kind of boho chic retreat that so many theatergoers would totally love to own

One not-so-great thing: Maybe another director would have been able to get all the actors—a really talented bunch but here grossly underserved—on the same page, or at the very least wouldn’t have staged the final climactic scene so far upstage that most of the audience couldn’t see it, including me who was fortunate enough to have a great press seat