A saddening, fast-paced look at ambition and heartache, this Chicago Dramatist world premiere follows John Chapman, a kid with a bright future ahead of him...until the day he wakes up to find he's a 35-year-old failure. Playwright Andrew Hinderaker gets at a thorny nexus of American dreamtime (real estate, pharmaceuticals, obsessive thinking, internet porn, failing banks, etc.) that feels both timeless and worringly current. The script is well served by a seamless production, and a cast that makes every character sympathetic.
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