“It was well-mounted, well-directed, and, for the most part, well-acted. But the play seemed a little dated.”
He thought about that for a while. “Dated? Yeah, maybe. But look at it this way. Here’s perhaps the first play in Western Theater that’s about the environment. Which makes it pretty timely, I’d think.”
That was the first time Gabe had ever really challenged me on anything, and I loved it. As I thought about it, he was right. “Given all that’s happening these days, the play just seemed somehow pretty tame to me. But Ibsen WAS a pioneer in raising issues like that, wasn’t he?”
“You bet your ass he was!”
I’d spent so much time fantasizing about his ass that it was startling to have him mention mine, even if it was in a cliché. It was fun when he was assertive. A great face, a body
