![]() ![]() ![]() “Love is a concrete thing,” Fran says in one of her few attempts at speech. This playwright doesn’t mince words when she has a point to make. A truly economical writer, Fornes makes Fran a dancer, leaving most of the characterization in the hands of a choreographer, who has wisely decided to go uncredited. In typical TV mode, the object of these boys’ adoration is idealized to abstraction. But will she ever say, ‘I love you, Joe?'” Love of a friend is more lasting.” But in the end, what 25-year-old can control his hormones? “I know she cares for me as a friend. ![]() “We haven’t been out together for a long time.” Later, they conclude, “Friendship is more lasting than romantic love. “She used to be closer to us,” one of them reveals. Their dialogue also belongs back in the dorm room. Here it is simply juvenile: The two men’s interest in Fran (Tai Jimenez) leads Marc (Matthew Floyd Miller) and Joseph (Peter Starrett) to duke it out in a pillow fight. In “Mud” and “The Conduct of Life,” two of Fornes’ better plays, the war of the sexes carries a primal urgency. ![]()
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