While Not a Tragedy, ‘The Counter’ Focuses on Its Characters’ Suffering, Even When Tempered by Humor
Playwright Meghan Kennedy has an ideal partner in David Cromer, whose flair for mining emotional depth through intimacy has helped make him one of theater’s most sought-out directors.

In David Cromer’s world premiere production of Meghan Kennedy’s “The Counter,” loneliness hangs over the stage like a pall. The setting is a small-town diner, and from the moment a ponytailed waitress pours a cup of coffee for her seemingly sole customer, an older man, and begins making small talk, we sense that they share a profound sense of isolation.
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