Happy Talk review – Susan Sarandon can’t save Jesse Eisenberg’s trite play
The Pershing Square Signature Center, New York
A reliably accomplished performance from the Oscar winner isn’t enough to add weight to an uneven tale with a thudding twist
There are a number of nagging questions that arise during Happy Talk, the latest play from the Oscar-nominated actor turned playwright Jesse Eisenberg, and frustratingly, none of them are intentional. While our curiosity should be fixed on the potentials of the plot, instead it meanders elsewhere, wondering just what about this particular story and this particular lead character attracted both Eisenberg and his star Susan Sarandon, lured back to the stage for the first time in 10 years.
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