Human Error

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The point of acting is simply to become the character portrayed with nothing extraneous showing at the edges. Meg Gibson and Tim Guinee succeed so well at that not simple challenge that they go some distance towards distinguishing Keith Reddin's well-crafted, emotionally effective, but somewhat slight one-act play Human Error, now at the Atlantic Theater Stage 2.


Gibson is Miranda and Guinee is Erik, a pair of National Transportation Safety Board analysts sent to figure out whether a plane crash in a Midwest field that left only one survivor was the result of a mechanical failure or human error. While both Miranda and Erik are experts at their jobs -- Reddin slots some convincing, [...]