We went to see Neil Labute's play Tuesday night at the Studio Theatre. Excellent. The dialogue was very real, and I thought it laid out a very plausible scenario about the differences in how men and women think about physical attraction, and about our relationships.
I had read a review earlier in the DCist which was critical of the slightly excess gesticulating by the characters in the opening scene. Having now seen, it, I see what they mean. I wanted to confirm with Sam whether she thought the same thing without having read the review before hand and she did. That being said, it is not really that the characters were unrealistic as I can imagine people that really would act that way. Its just that it was slightly distracting from the dialogue which I though transcended these two characters.
Perhaps more importantly, the review claims the subject matter of this play vs the others in Labute's trilogy is a bit on the shallow or trite side and I suppose I see what she means. I would just say that a lot of young adults (I am guessing the characters are in their twenty's) are pretty shallow and trite.
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