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Female criminals convicted of prostitution, drug dealing, shoplifting, writing bad checks, or assault go to MCI-Framingham, an overcrowded mixed security facility with 300 inmates, and the only prison in the state that incarcerates women...
...scenes alternate between rendezvous and therapy session, introducing the audience to Prudence's doctor, Stuart Framingham. Oversexed, insecure and aspiring towards machismo, his only valid diagnosis is the one-liner. "You need to accept imperfection, and I can help you with that." Bruce's doctor, Mrs. Wallace, displays her wackiness through her wild word searches--"derigible...no, I mean secretary!"--which are over-written, though not overplayed. If you want a stuffed Snoopy to bark support for your ability to express your emotions, she's the shrink for you. She helps Bob, Bruce's lover, when he is suicidally upset...
THIS PARADOX stems from a strong point of the production: the acting. In one case at least, it may be just too good. The farcical psychoanalyst--Mrs. Wallace and, to a point, Dr. Stuart Framingham--are played to the hilt by Ruth Bolotin and Adam Barr. Daniel Hurewitz is hilarious as Bob, who sulks, shuts his ears to reason and sings Frere Jacques. Caroline Bicks is a strong, though somewhat monotonous, Prudence, who does not know if she wants a husband, but certainly does not think she wants a crazy one. The candidate for both those spots is Bruce, played...
Cindy Santomassimo, president of Framingham's student government, said she is gathering as much information about the raids as possible. "I want to make sure their rights were not violated," she said...
About the drug flow at Framingham State College, Larrabee said among "any population of people this large, there will be some drug use. They are no different than lads at Harvard, M.I.T...