Word: mentalities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...second set, in the words of co-captain setter Abbas Hyderi, "was a pretty big mental letdown." Cornell...
...effort to gain power over these, even if it is only mental, athletes often adopt superstitions...
...diagnosis must be made and documented by a doctor responsible for the individual's care, and individuals must be declared free of depression or other mental illness...
Sarnat sure knows her psychotropic drugs. As the characters are introduced and their dosages cataloged, their mental instability becomes evident. The lead character, Cory (Melissa Gibson '99), is an accident waiting to happen. Because she takes copious amounts of pills, she is hardly aware of what she says or does. She makes the mistake of teasing a pick-up, Mike (Jason Dean '96), and then not consenting to sex. As she undresses and trades clothes with him, she trades identities and gender roles as well. Cory serenades Mike with such sweet compliments that his eventual brutality comes as a shame...
While Sarnat has the opportunity to present mental sickness in a much more disturbing way, her humor makes the existential grief of these characters more palatable--like the sugar coating on a pill. The characters can't help being regressive, what with all the medication they take. The humor, like the attractive musical score, is a reminder of happier emotions; but the play's ultimate message is that, in the words of one patient, "Dead is free...