Love Drunk

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An unwritten rule of playwriting is that at least one of the cast of characters has to be someone the audience pulls for. The veteran playwright Romulus Linney, however, neatly give the lie to that requirement with his consistently intriguing two-hander Love Drunk, now at the Abingdon Theatre, in which neither Wilbur Johnson (Austin Pendleton) nor Karen Bannerman (Kristina Valada-Viars) is especially sympathetic. And while Linney's purpose is to bring two troubled people together to see if they can break through to each other, what begins as a May-December one-night stand evolves into something far more sinister.

As the two warily circle each other throughout much of the 80-minute work -- r[...]