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"All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others," Cyril Connolly wrote in "Enemies of Promise." Take, for instance, the sensational charmer Davis, who is the hypotenuse of the complex and compelling love triangle in Adam Rapp's "Red Light Winter" (a Steppenwolf production at the Barrow Street). We first see Davis (played with wicked bravado by Gary Wilmes) as he whirls into the squalid room at an Amsterdam hostel that he is sharing with his former college roommate, a bearded, insecure playwright named Matt (the superb, edgy Christopher Denham). Davis is a tour de force of liveliness; he feeds off the deadness in ...