"I last saw The Flu Season in 2005, produced by Portland Oregon’s Theatre Vertigo. That production implacable, heart-rending, overwhelming. Director Michelle Seaton pulled bloody, precious truths from fragile, real souls. Will Eno’s script captured my helpless happy life and the self-obsessed, cruel, unjust society surrounding it.
Since 2005 I’ve found other societies. Now Eno’s careful words ignore our real world where most people can’t afford to send their mentally-ill children to safe places. Where crazy Man and Woman live houseless, self-medicate with alcohol, get beat up or raped . . . "
from "The Flu Season @ UAF," review for The Fairbanks Aurora 2012. This is still true for The Flu Season but one reason I'm liking N2N is how it manages to be earnest rather than self-important.