Saw the final performance of Bailey Williams and Sarah Blush’s un-Googleable dystopian open office horror comedy Events at The Brick Theater in Williamsburg tonight, and my one regret is not seeing it sooner. It is one of the most magnificent stage plays about contemporary white collar capitalism I have ever seen and it’s going to stick with me for a long time. Phenomenal script, acting, creepy cold office tube lighting, set design, practical effects, everything.
Early reviews and the blurb in the play's promotional materials were coy, and perhaps deliberately misleading, presumably for the sake of avoiding spoilers--it's not actually a Samuel Beckett-esque magical realism experimental comedy where people monologue existentially about whimsical situations involving working life under the pandemic. It's more accessible than that--and while it certainly is a pandemic-era play, with situations that feel familiar in the zeitgeist (like the characters making funny faces they know the person on the other side of an audio-only conference call can't see), it really has nothing to do with the pandemic at all.
(I'll try to be relatively judicious about spoilers, myself, but it's really impossible to talk about the most interesting parts of this play without spoiling anything. Besides, that was the last showing of a sold-out run, and barring a second run, any potential performance of this play that could be spoiled for you is unlikely to ever happen. So.)