Word: joans
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...five of these Gen-Xers work at Bowl and Brass, a cheesy Crate & Barrell/Pier One hybrid. Using flashblacks and present-day scenes, Matteau tells a series of interlinking stories about the protagonist Jen, her slacker-poet boyfriend Joe, Joe's exgirlfriend (and Jen's ex-best friend) Joan, Jen's boss Jack, who nurses crushes on both her and Joan, and June, the dippy new shift supervisor...
...center of the plot is Jen and Joe's relationship, which began after Jen stole him from her best friend Joan. As the play opens, Joan is transferring to another branch of Bowl and Brass to avoid the situation. Meanwhile, the people Joan leaves behind have to deal with the mess they've created for themeselves...
Mike Seid's Joe is the classic stereotypical poet: sloppy, wavering, unable to keep a job and inexplicably attractive to women. "On the edges of the world," he proclaims to a love-struck Joan, "the poet stands sentinel." Only his trust fund keeps him afloat as he drifts from job to job and woman to woman...
...minor characters are naturally less developed. We don't see enough of Joan (Erin Pond) or Jack (Matthew L. Leavitt) to understand them or care about them. Too much is left unsaid. Was there a flirtation between them? Does Jack really pine for Jen? What was the real nature of Jen and Joan's friendship...
With a few exceptions--Joan Rivers and Whoopi Goldberg both had short-lived late-night shows--women have been left to amuse from the guest chair. But the fall TV season has brought two new women to late night: Stephanie Miller, the brash former host of a top-rated Los Angeles radio show, and the husky-voiced former supermodel (and co-star of this season's Central Park West) Lauren Hutton. Both aspire to distinguish themselves with shows that are, in at least some respects, stylized and unconventional...