Shawn LaCount's production for Company One, staged in the Calderwood's intimate Rehearsal Hall A, is so aptly low key, spectators may feel that they, like KJ or Jasper, have shinnied over the high fence into the listless thick of the alley behind the shop. Alex Pollock brings an almost balletic, ecstatic weirdness to KJ, Nael Nacer a brooding charisma to Jasper. And as Evan, Jacob Brandt, armored at all times by apron or backpack, his self-conscious demeanor painful to watch, reminds us just how young, if strangely wise, this Annie Baker is.

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