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Zayas, aided by excellent acting and production, does well with the form for the most part. The Wombs of Angel Street, though wildly uneven, shows promise in confronting the well-worn but nonetheless complex and clusive themes of birth, sex and death...
...Barth, is writing a personals ad. He is, in the playwright's own words, a "narrator left in the dark." Like Will Self's hermaphroditic Oxford don, Gordon is a postmodern creation. Recently, it has become deceptively easy to label anything vaguely eccentric as postmodern. But The Wombs of Angel Street, with its rejection of cause-effect linearity and its characters' use of subjective imagination to recreate reality, clearly embraces some of the genre's conventions...
Zayas uses humor to explore some of these themes, with mixed success. The Wombs of Angel Street has some compelling well written dialogue. When his wife chides him for his insensitivity Antoine quips, "Oh great, now I have to start reading for subtext." The scene in which Antoine pours out his heart to the bartender provides another interesting look at the present day confusion over sex roles...
Though moments like these frustrate the viewer, the last scenes save The Wombs of Angel Street, In his final monologue, Gordon promises that next time, "we won't have any death, any causality, only magic" and provides some poignant musings on the nature of providence and love...
Despite being proudly anarchist in spirit, The Wombs of Angel Street wisely rejects any attempt to demythologize this mystery...