Faster

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Adam Rapp is a surrealist; there's no two ways about it. Just when you think he's setting up a nice, meaty suspense drama -- about a group of desperate characters huddled in a basement, bickering while their victim awaits her fate in a dark closet -- the sky opens. Then the rain starts to fall, and then the rain turns into flies. After intermission, our two anti-heroes are found floating several feet off the stage, one of them in high heels, facing the mockery of a mysterious new character with a Satanic mien and a wheelchair.

Faster, now running at the Rattlestick in a production directed by Darrell Larson, is set somewhere in someone's impoverished nightmare of Chicago, a grim city that [...]