"A slapdash lampoon of sexual trauma and noxious masculinity...The play wrings its laughs β and, in fairness, its horror β from just how vapid its characters are...What the show has going for it β aside from Ms. Kabashiβs savagely brittle performance and Ms. Cagianeseβs deadpan bops β is its absurdist edginess. For a while, anyway...By the time the actresses are assaulting each other with an emergency light stick repurposed as a dildo, just what or who is being satirized?"
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βBoth excruciating and vigorously performed...The piffle on display here does exhibit craft, discipline, and structure but to little effect...The dialogue is nonsensical, vulgar, often coarse, and is supposed to be funny...Finnβs energized staging and utilization of the technical elements fulfills the authorβs bleakly cartoonish vision...Worthy takes on themes such as sexual violence, feminism, and consumerism but theyβre diminished by the shrill tone.β
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