The Brecht Effect and The Exit Interview
by ED RAMPELL the curtain lifts on live stage productions in Los Angeles, thesps sometimes deliver a garden variety of announcements: Locations of fire exits; pleas for donations; requests to turn electronic devices off; and the like. But along with these mundane verbal notifications, William Missouri Downs' The Exit Interview (An Existential Comedy) includes a not-so-run-of-the-mill "warning label" (as director …