The Transparency of Val

Life starts. People tell you things. Girls become boys. Facts become thoughts. Is my mother attractive? Is licorice really food? In Stephen Belber’s new comedy, The Transparency of Val, “Val” is born. Within minutes, he learns part of the entire history of the world. By then, having finished college, he is faced with the task of actually living. It is not quite the coconut he was taught, what with all the twisted Buddhists, sexually amorphous mates, and frighteningly friendly Nazis. But Val’s a survivor, and like most good people, he’ll endure. Unless he goes insane.