Inventing Avi

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It takes considerable finesse to set up an effective con. With Inventing Avi, now premiering at the Abingdon Theatre Company, playwrights Robert Cary and Benjamin Feldman pull a series of fast ones on the audience. In their deconstructed saga of backstage skullduggery concerning the disputed authorship of a hit play, it's never quite clear -- or clear for very long -- just who is pulling the strings.

One thing is certain, though: It's Cary and Feldman, abetted by a superb cast and their deft director Mark Waldrop, who are consistently setting up -- and getting -- the laughs. True, the first act -- in which we, the prospective marks, are being prepped for the big payoff -- occasionally lag[...]