Itamar Moses’ “The Whistleblower” begins deceptively, with a scene that feels straight out of an “Entourage”-slick Hollywood dramedy.
The playwright opens with a pitch meeting: A screenwriter and his agent are trying to sell a studio exec on a new show with the cleverly meta-theatrical title “The Whistleblower.” Directed by Jeremy Wechsler and anchored by a stellar ensemble at Theater Wit, the alternately crackling and cryptic drama has more to it than a self-referential sitcom.
At the heart of the piece is the pitch meeting’s writer, Eli (Ben Faigus), who astounds and alarms his agent Dan (William Anthony Sebastian Rose II) and studio exec Richard (Michael Kostroff) by abruptly walking away from a dream of an offer, along with every other professional obligation he has.
‘The Whistleblower’
When: Through June 17
Tickets: $18-$55
Run-time: 85 minutes, with no intermission
Info: theaterwit.org
His priority, Eli insists with implacable calmness, is a quest for “truth,” a quest that is not markedly dissimilar from the plot of his show pitch. Finding this truth will involve going home to the San Francisco Bay area to revisit his past.
Wechsler’s mostly double- and triple-cast ensemble grounds the occasionally quirky script as various loved and former-loved ones react to Eli’s uninvited demands for reckonings.
The episodic plot offers a rich series of encounters, starting as Dan and Rich grin, slap hands and talk contracts and story treatments for Eli’s next project. Sitting...
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