Vision Disturbance

Dimensionality is an ongoing concern in Christina Masciotti’s marvelously strange and humane two-hander, sharply directed by Richard Maxwell in his trademark affectless style. Don’t be fooled by the deadpans deployed by Linda Mancini as a middle-aged Greek immigrant and the equally superb Jay Smith as a shy ophthalmologist trying to help with her sight; these lost souls possess hidden depth. Masciotti’s beautifully wrought language features a keen interplay of the boring and the weirdly poetic.—David Cote