The Reader article about Commedia dell'High School Commedia dell'High School From The Chicago Reader , February, 1998.
Hyperbolic slapstick is refreshingly absent.
On the night I attended, Bumper Carroll and Mary-Terese Cozzola took the lead roles in a fable of adolescent angst centered around a nerd's learning, then unlearning how to be cool 'n' cruel. Even the supporting characters had enough depth and complexity to make one want to return and see what their stories were.