A certain off-broadway play, I Was Tom Cruise, experienced a successful run and encore last year, and we’re rooting for a revival production. This play by Alexander Poe centers around a typically unhappy married couple, Paula and Frank, the latter of which bears a striking resemblance to one Tom Cruise. Amidst the winter of their respective discontent, the pair enter their apartment building to encounter a movie crew for a film starring Cruise. Then things start to get weird:

Cruise befriends the couple and very shortly begins to see the discontent in their marriage. He then bonds with Frank, taking him to clubs and letting him see how stardom and the servility of women that comes with it can be intoxicating. Frank begins to understand that there is a life outside of his unhappy marriage. Now Cruise has Frank just where he wants him.

Oooh, I just bet he does. The script and its portrayal is said to be a bitingly funny examination about the cult of celebrity and an examination of Cruise’s own words, “life is too short not to have everything you want.” Essentially, the play presents the classic Faustian bargain with a few well-placed twists. A full review leaves one begging for more.