The Met production attempts to play on the audience's ambivalence as well as the cultural fascination with violent crime, but the creative staging falls flat.
Terrence McNally’s final gift to friends, fans and theater industry folk was his own memorial, which he concocted and cast in the days before his death. It was a long, but loving, goodbye, tipping the scales at two hours and 40 minutes, but it was everything a memorial should be.