I read the entire thing. I like the author's prose, and learned a little about their theatrical exposure therapy. Can't say I left with much else, but it was an enjoyable read
> Onstage facing them stood Grayson, the mastermind of the night. This Grayson was a heady cocktail of signifiers garnished by an Indiana Jones–type hat he’d worn, I gathered, to all twenty-one Road to Recovery Tours to date.