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...them. About 500,000 have done so. But much of the Thatcher program is rooted in her right-wing instincts. She stirs the hearts Of many with her call for a return to capital punishment and greater powers for the police. Thatcher has become, according to Tory M.P. Julian Critchley, the spokeswoman for a new middle class, "the Rotarians of Grantham who, dissatisfied with much that they see, welcome the Prime Minister's call for radical change...
...Office for the Arts brings many odd people to Harvard. Some are musicians, some are artists, others write plays about flaccid sexual organs. Jay Critchley is one such invited guest. Critchley is the author and director of The Lympdick Diatribes: It's Hard to Be a Man, a series of short testaments to the testicles centered in the town of Lympville, where getting it up is going wrong. The show, a workshop piece inspired by the actors' improvisations, weaves together an entirely odd but nonetheless perversely witty original manifesto of cock that mocks The Vagina Monologues, embraces bestiality, and addresses...
...Other flashes of amusing oddities include Jeff Dubner '03 as a wimpy boxer incapable of doing a mere pushup pretending to be a 245 lb. man. Through this skit, Critchley mocks masculinity, especially when the drag wrestler beats up Dubner. Also featured is a proposal to start a new colony off of Boston's harbor where all with constant erections may be free from the society of Lympville and roam about on the phallus shaped heaven...
...most surprising skits deal with distortions of serious issues. One is never quite sure whether Critchley's humor is intended to mock the seriousness that the cult of political correctness brings to issues of sexuality and STD's or if Critchley is trying to use humor to break down the discomfort most people have with dealing with these issues. When trying to address what seem underneath the laughs to be serious issues one can only guess at the ultimate intention of Critchley's creation...
...Evidently, one would hope that Critchley does not intend to mock AIDS victims, but the larger point behind this skit is unclear. The omnipresent stag banner decorated with condoms in the sign of a deflated male symbol is clever, but nonetheless its continued presence in every scene makes it impossible to view any skit as possessing serious intention...