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Total Rating: 
**1/4
Opened: 
September 9, 2001
Ended: 
September 23, 2001
Country: 
USA
State: 
New York
City: 
New York
Company/Producers: 
New York Theater Workshop
Theater Type: 
off-Broadway
Theater: 
New York Theater Workshop
Theater Address: 
East 4th Street
Running Time: 
75 min
Genre: 
Comedy-Drama
Author: 
Charles L. Mee
Director: 
Erin Mee
Review: 

The premise of Charles Mee's experimental comedy is laudable: compress a lifelong romantic relationship (and, metaphorically, all relationships) into its high and lowpoints -- first meeting, restaurant date, sharing of cultural signposts and sexual appetites, dish-smashing fight, mournful farewells, reunions, and resigned resumptions. But the execution, by Mee's daughter, Erin, could hardly be clumsier in this New York Theater Workshop staging, which would be a complete disaster if not for the gorgeous, Dali-meets-Magritte set (lit by Klara Zieglerova); and the sheer fearlessness of actress Ruth Maleczech. An amazingly vulgar nude scene for the play's two homely, obese leads might have been shockingly funny in the days before TV's Jerry Springer. Now it's just another embarrassment in this 75-minutes-feels-like-175-minutes evening.

Cast: 
Ruth Maleczech
Technical: 
Set: Klara Zieglerova. Costumes: Christine Jones
Critic: 
David Lefkowitz
Date Reviewed: 
September 2001