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'Poor Behavior' indeed

Posted by: NewtonUK 08:30 am EDT 08/15/14
Horrid people behaving badly, for 2 hours. Well acted and well directed. There is no lesson here, despite the SPOILER 'Lady or the Tiger' ending.

My basic impulse was to yell at the characters to shut up, or call them rude names.

Do we need another story about the amoral 'bad boy' babe magnet? Really?

Or a play when any of 4 characters - well 3 - could stop the downward spiral by calling a spade a spade on maybe page 8. Or 12. Or 15. Or 23. Or 45. Or 60.

Ms. Rebeck likes to provoke - maybe that was the purpose of SMASH after all, to piss us all off and lose a lot of money for NBC - but this sometimes funny, always unsavory unhappy play is not something that I found entertaining or worth a 'new play' slot in a major off Broadway theatre company.

Oh well. Onward.

(OK RYHOG - attack!)


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