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Christopher Soden
EDGE Contributor
Wednesday Apr 1, 2009
Closer – EDGE Dallas
It’s easy to understand when Patrick Marber’s Closer (currently playing at Enter Stage Left) is compared to Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf ?”or Jules Feiffer’s “Carnal Knowledge,” but somehow it feels more ferocious, more harrowing, and all the more ironic as the four characters involved : Alice, Anna, Dan and Larry don’t seem especially vindictive or damaged. In other words, none of them fall at one extreme or the other along the continuum of romantic sins : needy, egotistical, alienated, obsessive. All four seem disconcertingly normal in light of the pain they inflict, which doesn’t seem exceptional when we are dealing in the realms of love, sex and intense attraction. Intense longing.
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