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...smash the mold she dwells in: Margot, whose career as a TV newswoman makes her a friend to all New York, but who passes her time in lonely solitude...Ellen, the epitome of the surburban housewite (complete with anorexic daughter) who conquers her boredom with a chain of lovers...Nikki, who takes the middle road and finds a New York career and a Connecticut family each jealous of the other...and Rachel, who serves her husband as social secretary until she grows tired of small-talk dinner parties and sleeping until noon...
Hours of agonizing soul-searching lie behind each of the conclusions these four frustrated females have reached. Every move is preceded by an involved discussion of personal motiviations, as though each woman acts in a vacuum, untouched by the outside world. The rationale is always clear; when Nikki decides to embark on her first affair after leaving her husband and moving to the city alone, she thinks to herself, even as she is led to the bedroom, "Obviously there was nothing to do now but go through with it. It was what she wanted, she might as well admit...
...humor--this particular facet of Weller's play becomes the mainstay of the Dunster production. David Alpert gives a skillful and sophisticated performance as the roguish Mike who masterminds the comic scenes. His sidekick, played by Andy Berger, is a lackluster second fiddle. Andrea Gordon as Ruth and Nikki Mintz as Kathy speak their lines self-consciously, sounding unnatural saying "fuck" and "shit"; it's as though the Jackson twins have bedded down with the entire high school football team...
Three years ago Ebony ventured to print a couple of excerpts from her poetry, but it was mainly interested in gushing that "Nikki, the poet, has become a personality, a star." Last summer, The New York Times finally heard that Nikki Giovanni is a star and it found space for her in the Op-Ed page; Giovanni was ready for The Times with a long poem called "Ego Tripping (there may be a reason why)." The poem seems to invoke the voice of an African goddess who croons a mixture of nursery rhymes, Egyptian myth, parables of the Biblical parables...
...Nikki Giovanni brandishes a strong ego, believing that it wards off exploitation. But that's not the way things work out. She recognizes the model's plight as a person whose deeper attributes will probably never be allowed to surface: "Being pretty has always had drawbacks for Black women; being beautiful is our natural state." Yet similar qualms about the image of herself that has been most widely spread don't seem to figure in her mind. Smugly, she explains that writing is the only pastime she is fitted for--her lone skill--and publishes without bothering to catch...