Blank Canvas’ ‘Lobby Hero’ offers a meditation on moral incongruity Bob Abelman Cleveland Jewish News, The News Herald, The Morning Journal Kenneth Lonergan’s scripts for the stage and the screen (in 2017, he won an Oscar for “Manchester by the Sea”) are character studies – tightly focused meditations about small people who live their small lives in a minor key and tormented by inner conflict. His plays, in particular, are driven by the idea that the conscious and the unconscious mind are often at odds. “A large part of yourself,” he said in a recent New Yorker interview, “is hidden from yourself and comes out in all sorts of strange and interesting ways.” In his “Lobby Hero,” which debuted Off-Broadway in 2001 and is currently getting a remarkable production on stage at Blank Canvas Theatre, it comes out in the impassioned ramblings of four blue collar characters whose words are often two steps ahead of their heads and one step behind their hearts. For more of this review, go to: www.clevelandjewishnews.com/columnists/bob_abelman/