Porn Again

Paula Vogel's potent drama Hot 'N' Throbbing is about a house divided, a marriage infected, a family exploded by a combustible combination of sex, violence, and, perhaps most flammable of all, an irrepressible yearning for intimacy. Everything in the world of this play--its inhabitants, emotions, dialogue, setting--bespeaks normalcy warped into something singularly unsettled and unsettling. At any moment, you sense, it could all come tumbling down.

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