Martyna Majok’s Profane, Poetic Play Explores Loss & Redemption by K. Marguerite Caronna Emilie Whelan skillfully conducts a quartet of talented actors in a play of consummate humanity in Oakland Theater Project’s production of Martyna Majok’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama “Cost of Living.” Each character has their own distinct melody of longing. Good hearted but unlucky Eddie (Daniel Duque-Estrada) starts the play with a stunning barroom monologue of searing loneliness. He straddles...