Word: viciousness
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Some of the chintziness achieves its intended comic proportions. The evil priestess ties our heroes to stakes, threatening them with sacrifice to vicious alligators. But small, adorably wiggly plastic things are tossed out on stage, and for once Sellon doesn't ruin it for himself and us--the actors respond as though these are, indeed, vicious creatures. If this attitude had prevailed, Thebes Like Us might have been the enjoyably silly evening...
...moment, frozen, University of New Hampshire captain Bob Gould, having just uncorked a vicious slapshot from about 45 feet, glances towards the goal before heading in for a prospective rebound. The backskating Dartmouth defenseman, unaware of what is happening behind him. His glove outstretched, hoping for the reassuring thwack of rubber into leather, Dartmouth goalie Bob Gaudet. 14,490 fans, waiting, ready to explode. The Boston Garden scoreboard: UNH 2, Dartmouth 2, 2:43 to play...
...strongest part of the show, the five actresses are seventeen-year-old high school seniors who have just been voted most popular, most likely to succeed, best dressed, class clown and class cutie. Ravenal's revue-style production successfully recreates the feelings of sex hungry, adolescent, neurotic, sweetly vicious teenagers. And the exceptional cast manages to hook up the disconnected images of each high school experience and present a picture of what the good old days at least ought to have been like...
This is not to say that the songs, and the experiences themselves, are not quite moving. Again Woods, now suffering vicious midnight flashbacks, completely silences the audience as she tells of her abortion. In "John," Ravenal, too, is convincing as the confidante who can never quite become the lover...
...with the luxury of self-pity. The fact that his new wife does not condemn his compulsive comparison of spouses only provokes him to lash out at her. "You leave me so much room to be cruel in," he explains, contrite but unrepenitent. The couple becomes trapped in a vicious circle of guilt, anger, compassion, and fresh guilt...