Word: flatspin
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Dates: during 2002-2002
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...story should go - 1982's Intimate Exchanges famously explored a multitude of different endings. And some trickery is afoot in Damsels (directed by the author). In play No. 1, GamePlan, a disturbing drama of teenage prostitution turns into a hide-the-corpse farce; in play No. 2, FlatSpin, a lonely-gal romance becomes a spy thriller; and in RolePlay a meet-the-parents dinner comedy morphs into a piercing study of social class...
Rule No. 33 decrees: "The best comedy springs from the utterly serious." And so FlatSpin, pure farce about a girl whose date turns out to be a drugs squad operative, is the least funny of the three. Never rooted in reality, the stakes aren't high enough to provide the discomfort that is so often the flip side of laughter...
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