David Hurst takes a look at Fire and Air:
After sitting through Terrence McNally's dismal Fire and Air at Classic Stage Company, a play about ballet that contains no actual dancing, I remembered McNally is also the playwright who gave us Deuce, a play about tennis that contains no actual tennis playing. As insufferable as Deuce, and perhaps worse, Fire and Air is a turgid exercise in artistic hubris that boasts a talented cast vainly endeavoring to make a tedious play relevant when it needs to be sent back to the drawing board. . . . |
