A production like this ends up taking a sadistic stance towards its own audience, insisting that because it is punishing you for caring about its suffering character, it is doing something serious and valuable. Photo: Emilio Madrid Few things are more dreary than a one-person show that insists on being miserable. The solo performance is an ever-more popular Broadway genre — understandable, given the increasing production costs of staging anything — that hangs on the virtuosity and charisma of