Theater Reviews + Features | Pittsburgh City Paper: Stable, boring marriages and mid-life crises have probably sold more cars than every car salesman in history.
The REP's production of Becky's New Car isn't subtle about this message. Shoes, flower vases, cups, books and a toilet seat are only a few of the banal, everyday commodities that dangle from the ceiling, mocking all the characters. In this 2008 work by Steven Dietz (Fiction, Shooting Star), Becky is a relatively happy wife and mother, employed by a local car dealership. She's in an ordinary mid-life rut until a filthy-rich widower wanders into the dealership and mistakes her for free game. Does she take a spin in this new, flashy ride or drive back home to her perfectly dull, blessed life?
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