'Lost Lake' review: 'Proof' author David Auburn's latest goes nowhere
Tracie Thoms and John Hawkes in "Lost Lake," a play by David Auburn, directed by Daniel Sullivan, at the Manhattan Theatre Club at New York City Center - Stage 1. Credit: Joan Marcus
David Auburn, the Pulitzer winning author of "Proof," sets up his modest two-character drama, "Lost Lake," with piles of ominous warnings. When the widowed New York nurse arrives to inspect a woodsy cabin she may rent for a summer week, she finds a strange, creepy owner and a worn-out mess of a place on a lake.
There is no Internet and almost no cell reception. When she comes back with her two small children for their nature vacation, none of the promised fixes -- not even to the dangerous dock -- have been done.
Tracie Thoms and the terrifically spooky John Hawkes (Oscar nominee for "Winter's Bone") are convincing despite a script that, for all the heavy warnings, is little more than a character study. Daniel Sullivan's direction is typically astute, but the play goes almost nowhere and, mysteriously, nobody in this scary cabin ever closes, much less locks, the doors.
INFO $90; 212-581-1212; manhattantheatreclub.com
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