NY Times theater review of “The Underlying Chris” by Will Eno: Protagonist is extremely self-transforming, but review fails to recognize multiple personality

The protagonist is described as continually changing names, gender, and body. Whereas, in multiple personality, alternate personalities often differ in names, gender, and body-image. Thus, the review describes a dramatized multiple personality scenario, but the reviewer never mentions multiple personality.

Here is the review: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/21/theater/the-underlying-chris-review-will-eno.html

Most of the surprisingly common symptoms of multiple personality in novels and plays are unlabeled and unacknowledged, because authors seem not to have thought of what they have written in terms of multiple personality, per se. What, then, are these unlabeled symptoms of multiple personality doing there? They are a literary or dramatized reflection of authors’ own psychology.

(As discussed on this site during the past six years in over 1700 posts, most fiction writers have multiple personality trait. For them, it is a special ability, and an integral part of their creative process.)

And since fiction writers usually do not think in terms of multiple personality, per se, and so have not labeled the symptoms of multiple personality in their novels, poems, and plays, most reviewers fail to think of it, even when it is blatant, as in this case.