If you have an elongated joke involving flatulence, folks, and “The Cottage” breaks an epic amount of wind as part of its myriad country-house shenanigans, you’re doing farce, writes theater critic Chris Jones.
Thank you for supporting our journalism. This article is available exclusively for our subscribers, who help fund our work at the Chicago Tribune.Laura Bell Bundy , Alex Moffat , LilliCooper , Eric McCormack and Dana Steingold in"The Cottage" on Broadway.The new Broadway show by Second Stage is billed as a reconstructed romantic comedy, a feminist tale, they say, of “sex, betrayal and love.
In essence, Rustin has penned an ersatz version of a Noel Coward comedy, as retrofitted for today’s sensibilities. Rustin is no Coward. That writer’s masterworks were subtle, witty affairs, exploratory of public and private selves, throbbing with unbridled passion and embracing of paradox and subverting of moral stricture. They were sexy for sure, but he didn’t need whips or fart jokes, nor could he have gotten them past the censor if he did.
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