Can't Let Go

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The hardest type of play to write today is the contemporary romantic comedy. In our cynical age, audiences are loath to buy into a premise that requires belief in romance. Some would say that romance died shortly after God passed away -- not that those two things have anything to do with each other, except that both require faith.

Still, playwrights keep trying their hands at romantic comedies -- and rarely do they succeed. We don't see many plays like Barefoot in the Park these days, do we? Instead, we get works that try to sidestep the problem by making a fundamental concession to our cynicism. The authors make the characters wacky and give them outrageous things to say and do; in this wa[...]