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By Chloe Veltman San Francisco Bay Guardian (Published: May 1, 2003) F
orget Viagra.
From the depths of male depravity comes LibidOff – a new wonder
drug that will rid every heterosexual male of that most humbling of assets: his
libido. In Dawson Moore’s fluent comedy presented by
Three Wise Monkeys
Theatre Company and Unidentified Theatre Company, a depressed scientist’s
antidote to his own frustrated sexuality falls into the hands of a nutty
misogynist with potentially frightening results. LibidOff is the middle play in
the writer’s Bile trilogy – all revolving around a character so cartoonishly
vile that he makes Frank T.J. Mackey, the dick-driven male-empowerment coach in
Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Magnolia,”
look like the pope. Moore’s compact, controlled dialogue skirts deliciously
close to the hem of taste, and under the astute direction of Christopher Jenkins,
the spunky cast of six manages to pull off a pretty formidable theatrical feat:
a comedy about sex that is as febrile as it is funny.
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