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POOR BEHAVIOR last night

Posted by:	NeoAdamite 01:41 pm EDT 08/06/14

By the end of the first scene the setup of this two-couple dramedy is pretty clear: one more or less normal couple, and the other composed of a paranoid and a psychopath. Most of the laughs land, but your liking for this will depend on your interest in watching the psychopath operate, what someone else here referred to as "cat and mouse." Personally this was not my cup of tea. Much of what goes on in the crazy couple comes off as a riff on Strindberg's DANCE OF DEATH (or maybe Durrenmatt's comic retelling in PLAY STRINDBERG!), but without the feeling that a larger social critique was being made. Cuts are needed in the first sequence, an unnecessarily long pseudo-philosophical argument, and a similar lengthy yet meaningless speech in Act 2. It's possible they could be made more comic, but they still make their point long before they end.

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