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This 60-minute descent into self-delusion offers a haunting and occasionally humorous window into the lengths people might be willing to go in pursuit of fame.

The degree of difficulty in the style of the play, both in terms of Ravenhill’s writing and the performers’ agility, is engagingly high. … Anytime A.R.T. or anyone else wants to bring Ravenill or One Year Lease Theater Company back, I’m there.

Any resemblance between the struggling visual artists in the play and the people who make small-company theater is, well, not entirely coincidental.

The fast-talking, wisecracking Wax knows the ins and outs of such hospitals. The child of Jewish immigrants who left Austria to escape the Nazis, she grew up in a suburb of Chicago. She says she was depressed as a child, but her condition went undiagnosed.

The artistic director of the American Repertory Theater thinks theater should be more like a rock concert.