Little Doc

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The sex, drugs and rock-n-roll culture of the late 1960s proves to be no refuge for a group of late twentysomethings in the mid-1970s in Dan Klores' wearying new play Little Doc, running at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater. Neither Klores' cluttered writing and contrived storytelling, nor, director John Gould Rubin's almost casual staging abate theatergoers' frustration with the meandering if potentially interesting play.

Klores' characters, who grew up among petty hustlers in Brooklyn and still find themselves mired in the neighborhood of their birth, may have once had ideals, but Quaaludes, cocaine and heroin -- along with failed get rich schemes -- have dulled idealism and hope. It's sma[...]