Penelope

Sunday evening we traipsed to Brooklyn to St. Ann's Warehouse, which is not a warehouse but a theater complex, to see the play Penelope in which the title character appears but never speaks or interacts with the other characters.  She is, as so often in plays written by males, a projection of the men's needs and fantasies.  Themes of competition and the importance of love emerge as well as some terrffic acting on the part of the four men acting as her suitors and awaiting the return of Ulysses who, of course, will slay them upon his return. By the way, the whole thing takes place at the bottom of a swimming pool. Great play?  Not really, but great theater and an entertaining evening.