War review " complex and packed play begs the question: what is it good for?
Claire Tow Theater at Lincoln Center, New YorkBranden Jacobs-Jenkins's latest is his usual mix of complex ideas with impossible time constraints, so expect a series of knots rather than a frilly bowDeath, life, conflict, love, family, legacy, ancestry and memory. These are but some of the central themes of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's provocative, disjointed and overstuffed War. It is most likely about the mystery of fam…