Lots of full-on fun in play about the ups and downs of a bunch of rough-and-ready foul-mouthed friends.
This highly entertaining, funny dramedy more than lives up to its actual title which is deemed too rude to print in full: this "mofo" show delivers fruity words with relish. And it points out that one woman's verbal obscenities are another's terms of endearment: "I'll kick a three-legged kitten down a flight of f***in' stairs rather than say some shit like 'I love you'," says one character.
The man with the hat might be cuckolding the lead character, Jackie, who's just out of prison. But Jackie's Puerto Rican girlfriend Veronica denies it: "You got an imagination like Dr f***ing Seuss or something!"
American playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis conjures up a claustrophobic city for his lower-class, multicultural New Yorkers, whose desperate need for each other makes their frail relations more resilient.
It's a world where a "user" might use coke, or people, or both; where associates can have a "PhD in manipulation and self-loathing" and where anti-addiction sponsors say steamingly infuriating things like, "I respect your anger".
