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What makes the one-act watchable is its clever organization. Divided into 15 short segments, What Time never gets bogged down in one particular scene. Ultimately, though, the script's stilted language and puzzling plot twists make it a poor match for Am I Blue...
...Quincy E-43, that philosophic snippet greets callers almost as often as one of the three residents does. This room is not alone. More and more students are creating a new art out of answering machines--the clever, pithy answering message...
While The Day Room can be faulted for what it tries to be, it cannot be faulted for its ultimate success--as a clever, witty series of surprises and startling situations. Larger issues aside, the inhabitants of the asylum and their quest for a better reality make for an intriguing psychological mystery. Gradually the audience realizes that it is witness to an elaborate game; but what kind of game, and who's playing, remain elusive questions...
...hard to fight a man, because he is as clever as you are. He has arrows and a spear. He is as tricky as you are. And besides, a person has friends, and if you kill him, his friends can kill you! It is more complicated...
...mathematics is sometimes so well hidden as to be nearly invisible. But at its best Square One finds clever and disarming ways of bringing dry subjects to life. In a sketch to illustrate the properties of the number zero, for example, the despondent numeral visits a psychoanalyst. "I'm just a nothing," he sobs. Zero added to any other number, he explains, adds nothing; when placed to the right of a decimal point, it even makes a number smaller. The supportive shrink reminds his patient of zero's important role: "What about multiplication? Zero times any number is zero. Think...