A CurtainUp Review Bosoms and Neglect by Susan Davidson Bosoms and Neglec t, John Guare s dark comedy currently playing at Signature Theatre, predates the playwright s biggest success, Six Degrees of Separation , by some 15 years. In fact his absence the play is set in New York City in August when all good shrinks take time off from their patients leads to the initial conflict.
Progress is illusive.
She is a bibliophile and possibly a pathological liar. Finneran delivers Deidre s lines in an irritatingly breathy, girlish voice but the physical comedy, the double takes, she handles with great aplomb. Her progress seems negligible. Angst is everywhere as these two characters left to their own devices while their mutual shrink is out of town for a month engage in verbal and physical foreplay as the audience laughs at their foibles and their shrink jokes. The play has been updated since the original 1979 version.