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Its safe to say that Richard Greenbergs best lines have leaked.
The Yondrs are protecting the actors from being photographed naked onstage.
Is this meant to be erotic?
Greenbergs play is unsexy in its bones.
(If it were still 2002, we would recognize him immediately as Derek Jeter.)
Yet, Kippy wonders, how could a mess have ever started with Darren?
Who would you ever associate less with that word?
Its crucial to Greenbergs storytelling that Darren maintain this air of untouchability.
Even when things guilt, anger, pain stick momentarily to him, they eventually lose their purchase.
Still, after some blushing and blustering in the clubhouse, most of Darrens teammates acclimate to his sexuality.
For all the talk about Darrens gayness, Greenberg presents him to us almost as a neuter idol.
Darren is sufficient unto himself, he says, but hes been wrong before.
These are all platonic friendships.
Unfortunately, the rhythms of the play do depend on Masons arias ratcheting us to a vertiginous height.
Luckily, there is Dirden.
whom weve seen without their pants.
But Dirden can do something even tougher.
He can playbigand seem delicate.
It is this outsize quality of Daveys that made me wonder again about what the play knows.
All are mouthpieces for the frequently didactic Greenberg, so they probably do speak for the play.
But Davey disturbs and complicates those lessons.
A god, even one you dont agree with morally, tends to do that.
Thats the applicable metaphor, right?
There are forces that such a simple equation can not account for.
I think the nudity inTake Me Outexists to remind us not to be too confident in our own enlightenment.
Why do we look at these vulnerable men with such a hungry gaze?
There are no gods, no referees, no umpires in life, yetsomeonemust protect us from one another.
I mean why else would they need to lock our phones away?
Yondr knows, we cant be trusted.
Take Me Outis at the Helen Hayes Theater.
