A Girl's secrets Chaos at the Dragon Theatre
IN CYNTHIA HEIMEL'S A Girl's strategies Chaos, Now playing at the Dragon movie theater in Palo Alto, The actors speak in many instances in pithy aphorisms, Delivering lectures and confessionals to the guests and each other in emphatic, Unanswerable monologues. just how much and shut up: Class is in program. The play begins with Cyndi Lauper's anthem to post feminist female empowerment, "Girls Just want Fun, The song blares as the actors take takes place, Then fades as three those (Do they actually want to be called "daughters,) Take their places before us in the dark. usually our guides, Although we won't be formally introduced until midway along with first act. The scene is indiana, last thing 1980s, first thing 1990s.
you will discover Cynthia (green Brooks), Who enjoys pot and Valium and is currently writing a column about *censured*, Women and unions for a local paper. (In case you're pondering, Heimel's Chaos was available in 1991; Candace Bushnell's *censured* and town, With its similar cast of personalities, didn't see print until 1997.) right here is Cleo (Lorie Goulart), A tightly wound scientist whose identity is all wrapped up in the conflict between her professed ability to do without men and her secret desire to find a man who will sweep her off her feet and not take "very little" For a resolution. the center of Rita (ellie Saunders), She's a tough get started the pants from Texas, With big hair and a mouth to enhance. they may good, Dear friends who like to congregate at a favorite restaurant, that's its very own sassy New York waitress (Denise Berumen). She joins the rest of the women in sharing secrets and obsessions, one of which is men.
It's not all surface doles out ample depth to keep us from dismissing her characters entirely. But craftsmen mostly thin gruel: Paranoia is it will always be self punishment. many people are deeply protective of our sexual property. Isn't it funny how nobody wants to see anybody happy? Experts are someone who has something to hide. Lost in all that brains, clearly, Are the subtler truths that live on both sides of such absolute statements. All masters, location, [-censured-=https://www.behance.net/moldovawomen]beautiful moldova[/-censured-] Have something to hide? no surprise Cynthia is so paranoid, And no surprise that the Bill Starr cast keeps, for part, To the top, at the same time.
there are also the men, All of whom are played by Noel Wood. Schmoozer, With his sports coat rolled up to the elbows. Nice little. But isn't it sort of weird when a rubber faced male actor is more interesting to watch than three attractive women in flattering clothing talking in appreciative detail about oral *censured*? at the end, The biggest problem with Chaos is [-censured-=https://sites.google.com/view/moldovawomen/photo-gallery]beautiful moldova[/-censured-] that Heimel's monologues feel out of date and beside the point. as an example, I cannot imagine the women in Knocked Up speaking to each other in such lame strings of platitudes. Their frustrations with men were funny precisely because they felt real. Heimel's characters are cartoons by comparison.