** (two stars) Standing frozen onstage before the opening scene of We Are the Lawmakers, the cast of this play-within-a-play stares blankly at the audience, as if poised for a family portrait. Writer-director Marc Andreottola’s schizophrenic sociopolitical commentary on American identity began as a suburban slice of life, but falls to chaos as a series of random events—including Hillary Clinton getting hit by an asteroid—struggle to push the story forward. At one point, the entertaining and eccentric Will Porter (playing a character named Tits McGee) actually tells the audience, “You’re all in my play and it makes no sense.” As static and ambient noise trumpet through the Lafayette Theater’s sound system, the performance comes to resemble a David Lynch film gone awry. Flagrantly incoherent, the play seems like little more than an attempt to be experimental for experimentalism’s sake.—Travis DeLingua, Eat Out Intern