FUBAR

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In Karl Gjdusek's FUBAR (F****d Up Beyond All Recognition), now at 59E59 Theaters as part of the Americas Off Broadway Festival, one of the characters is writing a book "about the problem of self recognition." Naturally, that also happens to be what Gjdusek's promising yet uneven play is about. The characters in the piece are prone to self-examination, but have a hard time reconciling the images they have of themselves -- or want to have of themselves -- with the reality of both their own and others' perceptions of them.

Married couple David (Jerry Richardson) and Mary (Lisa Velten Smith) have recently relocated to San Francisco, living in the apartment left behind by Mary's mother, who co[...]