Leaves of Glass

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Philip Ridley's
Leaves of Glass, currently performing at the Peter Jay Sharp Theatre, is a dark and often gripping family drama in which two co-dependent brothers share a repressed, lurid secret. Although the play is occasionally slack and decidedly overlong -- running two hours and ten minutes without an intermission -- it's nonetheless a striking piece of work that leaves a suitably nasty aftertaste.

At the heart of the story, set in London's East End, is the relationship between two brothers whose father died when they were teenagers. The older and more stable Steven (Victor Villar-Hauser) seems at first the healthier of the two: he's accrued a thriving business, an ambitious wife (play[...]