Vintage photographs from the Kinsey Institute line the lobby of The Wild Project where Electric Pear is producing Lukas Bärfuss' The Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents, which is receiving its American premiere in a first-rate translation by Neil Blackadder.

Presumably, the pictures of women in various poses are meant to show how far we've come in the heretofore taboo areas of sexuality, while simultaneously preparing the audience for Bärfuss' play, which is about Dora (the ethereally childlike Grace Gummer), a mentally challenged young woman who experiences a somewhat rude sexual awakening. But for many theatergoers, the still images will linger in the mind far longer than the play, w[...]