'The Whale' Is as Original as It Is Provocative

“I’m sorry.” That’s the pitiably defensive mantra of Charlie, a 600-pound housebound literature professor who teaches over the Internet in “The Whale,” Samuel D. Hunter’s disturbing new drama at Playwrights Horizons. As embodied by Shuler Hensley, encased in a body suit of unnerving size, Charlie is a curious mixture of crippling self-loathing and determined optimism, deep sa…

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