Status Updates From Plays One

3: Peggy Pickit Sees the Face of God: 4.5 stars. Likened to Albee's V. Woolf, this concerns a couple of doctor-missionaries returning back to their homeland after 6 years of fighting infectious disease in Africa, and confronting their more complacent colleagues who remained behind.

2. Idomeneus 3 stars. Using the same Greek myth that Wagner used for his opera, the playwright constructs a new 21st century Greek drama - but to what end? Not quite sure the point.

Animal Kingdom: 3 stars, concerns a troupe of actors who have been enacting the same play about animals for six years in repertory, but word has gotten out that a new play, in which the actors will perform as common food items is about to be mounted - chaos ensues, with the actor playing the zebra escaping to NY instead to film a perfume ad (which was first proposed in the playwright's previous work, Push Up).