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Sweet Eros, a play by Terrence McNally, is still running at Theater Two near Kendall Square. This is Cambridge's current brush with the avant garde, so if you go in for that kind of thing you might as well see this before the U.S. Attorney follows his Boston act...
Sweet Eros will be playing Tuesday through Thursday at Cambridge's Theater Two if the police let the show go on. The show is about moral crisis, and on opening night it was closed down for "open and gross lewdness." Sounds good so far. Evidently the leading lady is strapped...
If the guardians of public morality found this play in any way appealing to prurient interests, then perhaps they missed the point of Sweet Eros. The play is not an attack on morality, but an ironic comment on the absurdity of formulating ethics.
A young woman, played by Lisa Ingalls, is abducted by a disturbed man, played by Joel Polinsky. She is bound, gagged, and strapped to a swivel chair. Her assailant proceeds to strip her while narrating the story of his life. Ultimately, he persuades her to stay with him of her...
Sweet Eros is not great theater, but neither is it morally offensive. Presumably, we've seen it all before and we can take it. But sex has seen its better days on stage...