It’s a ridiculous result of the restrictions of livestreamed theater that one of the best performances to emerge from the new medium is also one you might never get to see. But having caught the Saturday evening performance for critics — on closing day of a three-day run — I have to tell you about it anyway. Or boy, as we find him: an 8-year-old named Patrick, enthralled and sickened upon meeting his wastrel father for the first time. “One can be touched and moved, one can be touched and not moved, one can be moved but not touched,” he says, describing the three kings (that is, coins) of the title. The challenge is to reorder them in a specific way despite the daunting limitations.

Source: New York Times September 06, 2020 18:22 UTC