Ode to Coto de Caza- Feminine Ending, a Review

Ode to Coto de Caza- Feminine Ending, a Review

January 27, 2007

The South Coast Repertory’s 2007-2008 Winter Season includes Sarah Treem’s A Feminine Ending – an apparent autobiographical hedonistic feminist piece: When asked about the source of inspiration for the play, Treem recounts “…those three experiences together coalesced in my head – I kept mulling them over, wondering what it all meant – and A Feminine Ending is what came out”

The play is produced in association with the secular progressive Portland Center Stage, directed by Chris Coleman. Brooke Bloom performance as Amanda and Jedadiah Schultz’s as Amanda’s not-so bright first boy friend are convincing. The set, costumes and music, complement South Coast Repertory’s trademark for quality productions.

Not only is the dialogue continuously and gratuitously laced with crude and fowl language, in a foozle attempt at humor, more appropriate for a Bravo production, but the content (and/or message) seems to be a sub-plot of one such trashy reality TV show: The kid acting as a parent and parents acting as kids, while the hedonistic mistakes the kids make are not only praised, but encouraged. In other words art imitating a cabal of that infamous (thanks to Bravo) private community, devolving the quality of the South Coast Repertory’s production’s usual quality.

When Treem was asked the question: What do you believe a theater needs to do in order to be a good home for a playwright? Her response was: patience and alchemy and providing artists with “time, space and resources”, because she “the trouble comes when artists are afraid of displeasing the theater administration so they stop taking risks and then everything they create becomes mediocre”. In principle we agree with Treem's premise about experimentation and/or risk-taking ending up with an evolutionary or revolutionary art form.

However, Treem’s play is a mediocre and foozle attempt to please the Peter Pan (GRUPs) generation by playing up hedonism and using as much artless and gratuitous crude language as possible. We have always been under the impression that the South Coast Repertory was the place to take the family for a relaxing afternoon at the theater. This perception was was quickly dismissed ending in a Feminine Fiasco.
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