Trust

Description
Though set in the music world, Steven Dietz's 1992 play is a standard-issue romantic dramedy. That explains why even the rock stars sound like, well, characters in a Steven Dietz play: denizens of a falsely realized pop-culture world who can only exist in theater. The playwright's one real rock touch is his format. The relationships are laid out in separate but related vignettes, each one with a title as if it's a CD track. Director Christopher Maher and the fine ensemble go a long way toward rescuing the play from its mediocrity; they earn our empathy even though Dietz's vignettes fail to build to anything—less a cohesive album than a collection of B-sides.—KV