Word: poisoner
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...Sorry, old boy. Aloof agency admits it knew all along poison gas was in Iraqi ammo dumps...
...course, it's amusing when Kitty, who is pregnant and has a nasty case of morning sickness, sends pails of vomit to the neighbors. It's amusing when Beep and Kitty call their neighbors and bark into the phone. It's even amusing when Kitty decides to send poison gas through the pipes, attempting to kill everyone in the building. But none of it's amusing for very long, since the same basic joke is repeated relentlessly...
...well-chosen prints ranged from Warhol's iconic Campbell's Soup can to a Chagall print to Munch's The Scream. Another striking feature of the set was a medicine chest in which Kitty keeps her "blue wonder drug"--actually blue M&M's--as she nicknames the poison gas pills. Smoke billows out from the eerily lit medicine cabinet at the end of the fifth scene and creepily snakes its way through the whole of the otherwise darkened theater...
...even with the poison-gas effect the play veers a little too far into the realm of absurdity. The characters successfully end up seeming crazy without being enlightening. They have some insight into this fact: as Beep says early in the play, "Maybe we really are just stupid." But when they suggest they are just like us--in Beep's words, "I guess we're all the same"--one feels inclined to object. The Day of the Dogs never gives us sufficient opportunity to do anything but distance ourselves from the characters...
...first asked to be put to death, the doctors refused, but after a few more months and more requests, Douwes Dekker remembers, "They said, 'Your husband is ready for it.'" That weekend he came home from the nursing home to be with the family, and the doctor administered the poison. "He just faded away," she says. "I'm convinced we did the right thing. He died a good death...