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Steven Winn (review date 8 October 2000)

SOURCE: Winn, Steven. “All Hot and Bothered over Porno.” San Francisco Chronicle (8 October 2000): F3.

[In the following mixed review of Hot ‘n’ Throbbing, Winn maintains that Vogel's “strong subject matter gets squandered on a crude, oddly listless piece of theater.”]

Playwright Paula Vogel has never been afraid to speak up about the unmentionable. She dealt with her brother's death from AIDS in The Baltimore Waltz, lampooned a suburban terrorist in The Mineola Twins and saw the tender side of a child molester in How I Learned to Drive.

In her recently revised 1985 drama Hot ‘n’ Throbbing, which opened over the weekend at Venue 9, pornography, domestic violence and sexual objectification get an 85-minute workout. There's no denying the power of Vogel's material, especially when a romantic reunion curdles into brutality in a...

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1. Introduction
2. Principal Works
3. Criticism: General Commentary
   1. David Savran (essay date 1996)
4. Criticism: Desdemona
   1. Steven Winn (review date 17 October 2000)
   2. Critical Commentary
   3. Jill Dolan (essay date 1996)
   4. Sharon Friedman (essay date May 1999)
   5. Marianne Novy (essay date 1999)
5. Criticism: Hot 'N’ Throbbing
   1. Kevin Kelly (review date 19 April 1994)
   2. Jayne M. Blanchard (review date 25 September 1999)
   3. Steven Winn (review date 8 October 2000)
6. Criticism: The Baltimore Waltz
   1. Steven Winn (review date 19 November 1992)
   2. Everett Evans (review date 21 March 2001)
7. Criticism: How I Learned To Drive
   1. Everett Evans (essay date 4 October 1998)
8. Criticism: The Mineola Twins
   1. Patti Hartigan (review date 7 March 1997)
   2. Steven Winn (review date 3 April 2000)
   3. Everett Evans (review date 16 August 2000)
9. Copyright

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