Rendering №7

The title of the article is “Economy Is Woeful, and the Sex Even Worse”, it was published on " on online version of “New York Times” on 24 March 2013. This article is devoted to the play ‘For Love,’ by Laoisa Sexton, at Irish Repertory Theater.

After recent excursions into Americana with the radio play of “It’s a Wonderful Life,” rural nostalgia with “Donnybrook!” and 20th-century institutional repression with “Airswimming,” the Irish Repertory Theater switches into high contemporary gear with “For Love,” a riotously tart and fiercely energetic production that opened on Tuesday. Billed as a “dark blue romantic comedy,” the play — a dramedy, really, only fleetingly romantic — plunges straight into Ireland’s fraught urban present.

Consider the opening scene: A couple drunkenly stagger into an apartment — the woman clinging to a drink — and collapse on the floor, intent on sloppy, impassioned lovemaking. But the fellow blacks out, and the woman loudly curses, enraged at her unconscious date. Then she passes out. And there you have it: “For Love,” a portrait of women in their mid-30s struggling in recession-ravaged Dublin, might be called “Bad Sex and the City.” But that would be reductive. It is much, much more.

It is the relationship between the strident Val and the delicate Bee that is the fulcrum here, and ultimately the salvation of both. Though mentioned merely in passing, Ireland’s economic state hovers like a dark cloud over the proceedings. But when these frenemies wind up, almost Beckett-like, in a field at night searching for an expensive lost brassiere, it’s clear that no derelict male or dire recession can threaten the bond they share.

In conclusion, I can say, that I’ve read many reviews of the play, and was surprised that American audience didn’t like the play. So many men, so many minds. Personally I liked the theme of it and all that I’ve read.
http://theater.nytimes.com/2013/03/25/theater/reviews/for-love-by-laoisa-sexton-at-irish-repertory-theater.html