Reality TV, No Channel Changing Allowed.

If reality television didn't exist, Caden Manson/Big Art Group would have had to invent it. The caterwauling banalities and strenuous camp on more or less constant display in the company's ''Broke House,'' at the Abrons Arts Center, bring to mind a grad student bingeing on the Bravo channel after taking a bit too much allergy medication. With their penchant for meta-theatrical shenanigans -- a play within a play, a stage manager calling out scene changes -- Mr. Manson and his deconstruction crew have bigger fish to fry than the Snookis of the world. But as the show's presentational antics and Wooster-Group-with-a-glue-gun aesthetics cross the one-hour mark with few variations in volume or tone, it becomes increasingly clear that there will be no rescue in the form of commercial breaks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]