“There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.” That telling line comes from Harold Pinter’s 1971 play Old Times, one of dozens of dramas – like The Big Chill and Romy and Michelle’s High School Reunion – built around friends gathering and having the complicated past cannon back into the present.
But none of those were stalked by a character representing death. That’s the twist revealed at the top of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s new play The Comeuppance.
