Rep Stage's 'The Whale' examines life's physical and emotional struggles
This squalid apartment is confined and cluttered, with papers and other possessions piled on the floor and even the stove. Sweat stains darken the back of the sofa, where Charlie, the apartment's morbidly obese resident, often sits. There are discolored patches on the wall. The place isn't much to look at. And yet, this space " a Northern Idaho apartment, as depicted in Rep Stage's absorbing, funny and harrowing prod…