Despite the strong acting and direction by Joe Mantello at New York’s Circle Repertory, you miss the fully fleshed structure of Baitz plays like “The Film Society,” set in South Africa, or “The End of the Day,” in England and California. Still in these monologues Baitz opens a theater teeming with images inside your head. And no American dramatist is more committed to the great theme of the moment, the showdown between public crisis and private inertia, the challenge to responsibility in a world community from which none of us can escape.
