A young couple try to hold their fraying relationship together while staying at an oddball Pennsylvania inn, run by a dotty proprietor (Georgia Engel) and populated by a few ghosts. Playwright Annie Baker (The Flick) has perfected a kind of methodically paced, darkly comic hyperrealism, and the play lasts a patience-testing 3 1/2 hours. But under Sam Gold’s astute direction for the Signature Theater, it was strangely enthralling.
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