You want to scream, “Check out your sense of entitlement,” at the characters in Paul Downs Colaizzo’s richly evocative debut play Really Really, an MCC production downtown at the Lucille Lortel Theater, directed by David Cromer. That line, so memorable from Lena Dunham’s film Tiny Furniture, may not go far enough to cover the dire consequences of actions taken by this college group, illustrating a “Generation Me” philosophy that hews terrifyingly close to a Darwinian survival of the fittest. This is the generation born after Roe v. Wade, the most wanted generation, Colaizzo explained at the opening last week, defined by extreme narcissism and outsized sense of entitlement.
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