Hilton Als: Wallace Shawn’s “The Designated Mourner” and Tarell Alvin McCraney’s “Choir Boy.”
Wallace Shawn’s primary impulse in his dramatic work is to fuck with the audience. Not through content—though he messes with that, too—but through form, which more or less dictates how an audience will respond to a play. Shawn’s style is marked by . . . (Subscription required.)