Review: "Click" Sets a New Noir in a Bygone New York City
Click Written by Drew Pisarra Directed by James Dean Palmer Presented by Drew Pisarra in association with The Tank 312 W 36th St., 1st Fl., Manhattan, NYC August 30-September 9, 2023 Mohammad Saleem as Del, Shuga Ohashi as Claire, and Saman Peyman as Oona in Drew Pisarra’s Click at The Tank, directed by James Dean Palmer. Photo credit: Justin Lahue From a soft click to a loud slam, how one replaced the phone handset could at one time act as a kind of conversational gesture on its own. Who hangs up on whom and how is one of the ways to track the shifting power dynamics in Drew Pisarra's new play, Click , which takes us back to a New York City where not only landlines but also public pay phones were ubiquitous, for what turns out to be an idiosyncratic slice of noir. Click takes some inspiration from Jean-Luc Godard's 1960 film Breathless ( À Bout De Souffle ), in which male protagonist and criminal hustler Michel (Jean-Paul Belmondo) spends a lot of the time when he is not st...