Let's give Leslie Ayvazian the benefit of the doubt and assume she had a clear vision of what she wanted to get across with
Make Me, a comedy about stale and stalled contemporary marriages now at the Atlantic Stage 2. While she apparently aimed to elicit a few laughs and perhaps some reluctant recognition at the lengths to which some long-time knotted (in more ways than one) couples go to keep their sex lives fresh, whatever she's attempted to convey has evaded her. The result is that six usually reliable actors struggle through 70 intermissionless minutes of humor-deprived activity that lacks any snap, crackle, or pop.

On a set that Anna Louizos has divided into three equal areas, tw[...]