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PAPA WOLF DADA HOT Last Night
Posted by: sergius 08:27 pm EST 12/19/15
Several interesting questions are raised but they aren't developed and they're unconvincingly dramatized. The play is well meaning, but its depiction of the impact marriage equality and, more precisely, the adoption of more heteronormative cultural expectations and traditions have had on gay men's sexuality and its expressions is narrow and slight. Parnell recognizes the movement from gay liberation to epidemic loss to the ostensible embrace of more conventional, less marginalized behaviors, but he's not that incisive about it. There's nothing approaching an analysis of these shifts, which is fine of course, but the play isn't very interesting. There's something banal about it. It's neither funny enough nor trenchant enough. It's a boiler plate story about marital infidelity and the challenges of raising children except that now the protagonists are gay men. Ho-hum.
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