Theatre review: Affluenza

Riverside Studios have taken the unusual step of launching a major season of five plays, importing off-Broadway director Andy Sandberg to curate the season and direct all the shows, as well as writing the opener. As far as I can tell Sandberg doesn't even seem to be a particularly big name in New York so I'm not sure what led to the red carpet being laid out for him to this extent - maybe the venue was hoping people would misread his name as Andy Samberg and get some ticket sales in? In any case I'm sure their confidence in him is justified, and he wouldn't open the season with a show whose title has already become a byword for disaster within days of its opening, would he? Affluenza opens in the aftermath of a car crash, in which 16-year-old drunk driver Dylan (Noah Schnapp) has caused a three-car collision, killing at least two people.His lawyer Bradley (Rupert Young) finds him alarmingly unable to take any responsibility for his actions, an attitude that's matched by his wealthy…