"Jarcho’s squirmy, sinister meditation on female desire as weapon and a liability...The play replaces Racine’s stately alexandrines with lines about sex and barf and decay. Actually, a lot of those are in hexameter, too; Ms. Jarcho is no slouch...If not entirely legible (as in her other work, Ms. Jarcho prizes theme, emotion, and language over lucidity), it’s unsettling and exciting and flick-knife sharp on the aggression underlying friendship, sex, and love."
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"Stylistically it is a school-locker collage, taped together from John Hughes movies and ‘The Craft’. It’s silly, often, and very funny. But its portrait of libido as our animating electricity is bleak, too: as fatestruck and gloomy as any ancient tragedy...Jarcho writes, as always, like gangbusters, making comic meals for her company members: Williams, who designs and runs the sound when he isn’t in a scene, is particularly hilarious."
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"Jarcho does not pull punches, and her company is not for the faint of heart…'Pathetic' is about female desire and death, but here the themes are in manifest conversation. While the Greek mythology works to repress female sexuality, Jarcho's work exposes the hypocrisy, violence, and oppression of the concept…The play suggests that female desire causes death, both the literal death of characters, but also a moral and psychological death, a powerful obverse feminist statement."
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