Today's Times carries a dismissive brief review of a play, "The Surrender," about what the Times describes as "the joys of anal sex":
Given Ms. Bentley's writerly skills, what is truly shocking about "The Surrender," on the page and onstage, is how badly written it is, pun laden and cliché riddled, full of numbing details about items like crotchless panties.
If the play is so bad, one wonders why it merited a nearly 1,000-word friendly advance feature in the Times about a rehearsal, advance publicity that many plays in New York that are not "badly written" would surely like to receive, but few do.