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...Vogel employs Clyde to explore the well-charted territory of abusive relationship. Drunk and staggering upon entering, he quickly sobers up to have sensitive conversations about his inner hopes and returning to school. Undoubtedly, being shot in the ass is a sobering occurrence, but we have a hard time believing that this is the same violent man who mandates the possession of a gun. He is simply too intelligent...
...room, but neither Willis or D'Aquila account for the fact that she's armed and he's bleeding and they aren't' on their way to the hospital. The formula dictates that these relationships create hard-to-break patterns, but we don't see it from either Vogel or the actors...
...used to deflate the porn industry's claim that the lines between art and trash are blurred and can't be legislated. Most of the time the gyrating and gasping of the booth people is merely white noise for the family scene. It is only at the end that Vogel manipulates the booths to their full dramatic potential, driving home the parallelism between violence in the home and violence in pornography...
Essentially, Hot 'n' Throbbing should be a wonderful show. The production values of the American Reperatory Theatre's staging are excellent. Christine Jones' set accomodates the needs of the play and of the space while magnificently supporting Vogel's theory that home and porn are interdependent. Anne Bogart's direction never falters and elicits high quality performances from all the actors. The individual elements are so well done that it is a shame they do not add up to a satisfying whole...
...Vogel in the end does not come through for us. The pose the pornography and domestic violence are inextricably linked is not supported by her script. The two are shown together on the same stage, but they never really connect in the way that Vogel hypothesizes. Without this driving universalism, Hot 'n' Throbbing becomes just another movie of the week, only better acted. It is truly unfortunate that Hot 'n' Throbbing can't raise itself about its soft prime time roots, the blood is so cool...