Jesse Eisenberg has gotten angrier. His first play, Asuncion, was a merciless takedown of white, liberal politics, but at its center was a genuinely warm if dysfunctional love story. His follow-up, The Revisionist, was admittedly colder, pitting a self-absorbed, pretentious writer against a savvy, Polish Holocaust survivor. But The Spoils, now being produced by The New Group at the Pershing Square Signature Center, makes John Osborne look positively placid. Ben (Mr. Eisenberg) is a film school dropout who lives in an expensive apartment funded by his parents. He allows his only friend, Kaylan (Kunal Nayyar), to crash for free, though it could be argued that Kaylan pays in emotional turmoil: Ben is hot-and-cold, sometimes full of praise, more often an indefatigable bully who refuses to conform to any social niceties: “You’re looking very Indian tonight,” tells Kaylan’s girlfriend, Reshma (Annapurna Sriram), after interrupting their weekly date. But things get worse—and much more awkward—when Ben finds out that an old childhood companion, Teddy (Michael Zegen), is marrying his first crush, Sarah (Erin Darke). Typically histrionic, he tells Kaylan, “I think that was the last time I was really in love.” Continue reading “How Do You Not Like Me?”