Lascivious Something
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SHOW INFORMATION
Opened May 11, 2010
Closed Jun 6, 2010
Visit the Lascivious Something website:
http://www.womensproject.org
WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
An American and his young Greek bride escape to an island and plant a small vineyard. Their harvest ripens, and a fractious American woman arrives uninvited to stir up passions at their first tasting.
WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?
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Lascivious Something
Personally, I found the characters rather unlikeable and by the end I wasnt sure that I cared what happened to them. The trick of occasional script rewinds did not seem to have any great contribution to the plot. The actors did a good job of trying to interpret what I would describe as a confusing script but I still couldnt really make head or tail of it.
Try it for yourself, it isnt boring but a little difficult to get into.
Reviewed by MACNBOB
on Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
RE:Interesting but Flawed
Interesting, but seiously flawed. The acting is excellent--the staging and direction are sloppy and confusing. This play has pontential. You wont be bored.
Reviewed by al10029
on Monday, May 17th, 2010
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At the beginning of Sheila Callaghan's Lascivious Something, now being presented by the Women's Project under Daniella Topol's direction, the impassioned and slightly sinister August (Rob Campbell) delivers an overripe and somewhat confusing monologue that has to do with a bottle of extraordinary wine that eventually figures importantly in the ensuing drama. As it happens, the monologue is in sync with the rest of Callaghan's script, which is so overripe and occasionally confusing it seems about to burst.
It's 1980, and August, an expat American, has gone into the tourist trade and also the vineyard business in his adopted country of Greece. The ripeness of grapes, however, is not his[...]