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Ben Moroski is truly talented, and he and director Nick Massouh have created a very memorable night of theater. “The Wake” is a rambling, bizarre, impassioned story about a man who (accidentally) runs over a woman with his car and then falls in love with her. It’s a strange, unexpected reflection on intimacy and human connection. It’s also, surprisingly, a sort of meta-reflection on one-man shows and the idea of performance, as it’s staged as a one-man show within a one-man show. I would recommend it just as a chance to see all that of which live theater is capable: just one man and one chair, onstage for an hour—and it’s captivating.
