- OTHER MEDIA
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- review in the SF Weekly
- by Frank Wortham
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- James Daniel's absurdist play features a heterosexual female, a bisexual
male, and a homosexual male meeting up in a pretentious restaurant for
even more pretentious conversation about marriage, true art, and selling
out. This grating take on existentialist drama borrows heavily from Jean-Paul
Sartre's No Exit and Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, but it has none
of the skill, subtlety, intelligence, or metaphysical weight of those masterpieces.
L. Bose brings an appealing naturalism to the character of Hannah, and
George Epsilanty musters a certain rakish charm as Gordon, yet their efforts
are in vain. The self-consciously arty music by Pamela Z. feels like an
undergraduate version of Laurie Anderson, the rudimentary technical elements
are distracting, and the unimaginative riffs on creativity and cuisine
are about as enjoyable as food poisoning
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