Your Responsibility for Sex Failure
Several people recommended this show to me and I was totally looking forward to seeing a fun play about the ridiculous clichés, stereotypes, and ideas about sex in the 1950’s. Unfortunately, the show’s tone and style left me confused and annoyed. What makes plays of this genre successful are their innocence, naïveté, and honesty. None of this works as humor when it’s played as a hard melodrama with a shit-ton of mugging. There were some moments when I smiled and yes, even laughed, but there were so many opportunities lost in the writing and playing of it that could have made this show a monster hit. Anyone remember Commedia Beauregard’s Five Fifths of Romeo and Juliet? Those kids knew what they were doing.
