Thursday, August 9, 2007

T: Is for titalating theater

My friend Vickie took me to see "Angry Young Women In Low-Rise Jeans With High-Class Issues" ANGRY YOUNG WOMEN IN LOW-RISE JEANS WITH HIGH-CLASS ISSUES" at the Players Theater 115 MacDougal Street. This hilarious evening of comedy has the women of New York discussing thongs, sexual fantasies, public displays of affection, the pill and it's side effects, traumatic memories of a first sexual experience, traumatic memories of last night’s sexual experience, sympathy sex, the double standard of nudity in movies, the artistic integrity of vagina's and penises in independent film, and of course...men. It's part sit-com and part stand-up comedy! Humorist Matt Morillo has written one of the funniest plays I have seen about my favorite subject "Sex" and discovered how women tick. Impressive! This series of character studies gives us a light-to-serious look at the psychology of the urban goddesses. These girls are coffee-driven, sensitive, wired, misunderstood and fuming with awkward issues. Who'd have dreamed that when she bares her soul, temptation could be so self-conscious? They are frustrated with the way of the world, the perceptions men have of them and their own reactions to it. How, for example, do you resolve contradictions like dressing as a hooker and still being a feminist? An evening of two monologues and three playlets. A young woman discourses on the practical limits of fashion in "My Last Thong." Two girls struggle with being objectified in offensive sexual fantasies in "Playtime in the Park." New to birth control pills, a woman takes out the frustrations of her mood swings on her boyfriend and his best friend in "Unprotected Sex. " In "The Miseducation of Elissa," a woman blames her loving, supportive and generous father for her being ill-prepared for the callousness of men. In "The Nude Scene," an actress balks at her first career topless scene while her bolder girlfriend, unfazed, tries to steer her through the experience. I had a wonderful time and so will you. You can catch this terrifically well written evening until September 16th. sex and the way we deal it is down right funny and that is a F.A.C.T.

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