Definition: In this task, you're given a statement and three sentences as choices. Your job is to determine the neutral choice based on your inference from the statement and your commonsense knowledge. The neutral choice is a sentence that neither agrees nor disagrees with the statement. Indicate your answer as '1', '2', or '3', corresponding to the choice number of the selected sentence. If sentence X agrees with sentence Y, one's correctness follows from the other one. If sentence X disagrees with sentence Y, they can not be correct at the same time.
Input: Statement: Rescued from obscurity three months ago by a rave from the New York Times ' Ben Brantley, Gross Indecency , about the Irish playwright's famous sodomy trials, started an open-ended New York run last week. Choices: 1. The Irish playwright was inspired by real-life sodomy trials. 2. Ben Brantley's scathing review knocked the play right into obscurity. 3. Ben Brantley gave a great review and the play benefited.

1