THEATER REVIEW- Skolka

Rarely, if ever, have I felt this embarrassed watching a performance. This show was a shrill high-pitched- over-the-top- rendition of every negative Russian mail-order-slut stereotype. The three young actresses were painfully earnest in their attempts to portray emotion through screaming. The plot was a loose storytelling of how each of the women came to find herself filling out a profile for an online dating site; their idealistic embrace of the cliché promises of a rich prince inside a white Mercedes.

Each story is tainted by the love of a lying, cheating, sexually abusive man, and of course it seems only natural that their efforts of escape are through more of the same. Though there was an attempt to give this show gravity through scenes of sexual exploitation and family rejection, they were rushed and represented the untapped potential of the subject matter. The gyrations of their miming were less provocative than pointless; atrocious accents served only to top off already sufficiently obnoxious caricatures.

It is an interesting topic, one that deserves to be explored in a more meaningful way.

Positive reviews online lead this humble blogger to suspect that someone was promised extra borscht.