MANIACAL NORMALITY
That the script is being produced seems to have more to do with Voltaire’s populist politics than its artistic sense. It tends to program the unusual, the odd, the rough. That Maniacal Normality was written and put together by a group of young, relatively inexperienced women, that it has a lesbian theme, and that it aims for a certain kind of hipness probably appealed to Voltaire’s programmers. Or maybe they simply didn’t have anything else to program. But no one who reads or sees this show could possibly think it’s ready for a production of any kind–even the raw productions, whether vital or disastrous, that are Voltaire’s signature.
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Though we see this coming, there’s no motivation for the characters’ behavior. Nothing suggested that Kate was attracted to Cybil. And while Cybil seems titillated by lesbianism as a concept, nothing in particular seems to have drawn her to Kate other than her availability–which is kind of pathetic.
