First of all, this is a very funny play. Second, as every funny scene we find, there is an undercurrent of bitterness that just makes the funny part a bit sharper.
The author has a very distinct way to portrait the characters of several people who navigate in some very dangerous waters. She gives us a very amusing picture of those over-pampered, over-educated and terribly self conscious young Americans who are always too much for every environment they inhabit but, sadly, even if it is not enough for them, they can’t afford them. They don't want the world in which the rest of the people live, so they build their own little planet and move there.
The reader can see the difference in the reaction of this kind of rebels with a twisted cause, their naiveté, their diluted ambitions and their not so practical enormous amount of knowledge, and the same kind of people when they are raised in a very different (normal) environment. I think it is funny how some people can discard reality in this very tragic-comic way. Maybe this is a bit what happens when we visit a mall. No matter how ruined, old we are or how much sophistication we may be lacking, once we hit the stores we get a little bit of the “cake frosting” and feel exactly as the marketing experts want us to feel.
In the world the characters of this play inhabit, once you get a taste of the environment, you can feel intellectually gifted, a community fighter, a freedom soldier, an environment defender, a leader, a yuppie…you name it. The problems is they never got the instructions booklet.
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