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Something has happened in the world, and we sense that it is along the lines of an Orwellian Big Brother phenomenon (could it be the television monitor perched near the ceiling, fixed on the characters below?). Ada and Meg (Yvonne Roemer and Calysta Drake) are chief-and assistant-washroom attendants, who encounter a series of women seeking a warm place to eat breakfast, to relieve themselves, and to expound their views on why men are wonderful and warm, beastly or boring...
...Yvonne Roemer faces the same challenge, spiced with a pinch of rape trauma. She glides effortlessly from coquettish flirting to ranting bloodlust. She grapples with the most rhetorical speech in the play, and succeeds in varying her tone without reducing the dramatic crescendo...
...Yvonne Roemer's choreography poignantly depicts the frustration and frenzy of a woman's soul held captive by unbreakable, ever-changing patterns and restrictions. The dancing becomes especially moving when Amalie Weber's and Walling's movements are synchronized...
...Vonnie Roemer adds to the list of well-played comic types as a tantrum-prone schoolgirl and as a she-male dominatrix. David McMahon, as Gratiana, pulls off a lurid parody of the indolent housewife, and so it goes...
Equally good is Vonnie Roemer as the Baker's Wife. The Baker's Wife is the voice of reason in fairy tale land. When her husband is worried that they cheated Jack into trading his cow for worthless beans she tells him that "if the end is right it justifies the beans." "Is it always or, is it never and?" she asks in her brilliant last song "Moments in the Woods," capturing these characters' inability to take charge of their lives. Roemer has one of the finest voices in the show and the necessary stage presence to keep her sane...