Word: sweeting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vocal pieces offered here will strike some listeners as benign imitations of Haydn and early Beethoven. Yet compared with the efforts of other American composers at the time, they are notable in their harmonic freedom, improvisatory style and whimsical subject matter. Epitaph on Joan Duff, for example, is the sweet-and-sour tale of a woman who took a pinch of snuff and sneezed herself to death. This is fascinating Americana, but it is a pity that printed texts of the songs are not provided...
...Sweet Eros, a one act play which opened at the Theater Two in Cambridge on May 23, has had the unique distinction of being policed every night since its "virgin" performance was busted. The police spent over four hundred dollars on tickets, making the play rival the Policeman's Ball as the event of the year in the pocketbooks, if not the hearts, of our public protectors...
...guardians of public morality found this play in any way appealing to prurient interests, then perhaps they missed the point of Sweet Eros. The play is not an attack on morality, but an ironic comment on the absurdity of formulating ethics...
...Lisa Ingalls, is abducted by a disturbed man, played by Joel Polinsky. She is bound, gagged, and strapped to a swivel chair. Her assailant proceeds to strip her while narrating the story of his life. Ultimately, he persuades her to stay with him of her own will. In Sweet Eros, the hero offers us a vision of life so meaningless, that judging the moral reprehensibility of his actions is impossible. His girlfriend committed suicide, his mother died of cancer; life to him has become an absurd game which he likens to the scurrying of ants across the floor. The kidnapping...
...Sweet Eros is not great theater, but neither is it morally offensive. Presumably, we've seen it all before and we can take it. But sex has seen its better days on stage...