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You get a bit of human connection.
They make for a sweetly weird couple in the lonely grayness of the Big City.
They ride a seesaw of obligations, approaching a sort of equilibrium.
The terms of Isaacs characters disease are instead metaphorical, even fantastical.
Lavin and Isaac move through a world that is ours, but not quite.
For instance, side characters keep offering them insurance in case a bird snatches them up into the sky.
There, the production itself also tends to overemphasize the bizarre, and runs away from itself.
But whizbang theatrics overwhelm later on: Blackouts and a bravura set change come across as overliteral.
He gives her space to ham it up a bit, and then snaps back with a quip.
You Will Get Sickis at the Laura Pels Theater through December 11.
