Review: Russian Transport
Adam Feldman
January 31, 2012: At the start of Russian Transport, an air mattress spontaneously inflates out of a cabinet and onto the living-room floor of a house in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn. It’s a striking image, and hits just the right note of invasive tumescence for Erika Sheffer’s engrossing moral thriller. The play’s first scenes seem to promise a night of familiar domestic comedy, with a Russian-immigrant twist: Misha (Daniel Oreskes) is the put-upon papa, who runs a struggling car service; Diana (Janeane Garofalo) is his dour, bossy wife; Alex (Raviv Ullman) and Mira (Sarah Steele) are their bickering teenage kids. But with the arrival from abroad of Diana’s brother Boris (an impressive Morgan Spector), the family veers into ugly new territory.
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