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...Bathtub is a modernized version of a Russian political satire script from the 1920s. The updated play takes on the issues of federal funding for science and the arts, industrial exploitation of nature, sexual harassment and Senator Jesse Helms...
...bizarre mix of didacticism and absurdity, "The Bathtub" eschews realistic character development in favor of a morality-play approach. The depthless characters here are personified abstraction. This frees the play from having to reconcile the conflicting claims of moral message and realistic psychological portrayal...
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...same might be said of many features of The Bathtub. The set is structured like a modern art gallery, and the audience has to walk through it to reach the stage. While some of the art objects are used to satirical effect--Senator Hum poses under Jasper Johns' "Three Flags" for a patriotic-looking photo--others seem intriguing but extraneous. There seems to be little function for a polyurethane foam "Iava" trail that leads from the audience to the side wall of the stage...
...capacious lobby, with its 40-ft. ceiling, beckons you to collapse into its deep sofas and get toasty at the mammoth fireplace. In the guest rooms, a sculpture of Tinkerbell graces the highboy; in the bathrooms, Hyacinth Hippo, in her Fantasia tutu, cavorts in various poses on the bathtub tile...