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dkrane's review against another edition
1.0
I want more from queer representation than this by-the-numbers in every way portrait of gay people tamed by marriage. From form to subplot (cheating, oh my; it does bad things to relationships! Yay monogamy), this is really a pretty conservative take on parenting and family structures; only interesting (a bit) in its meditations on complicated emotions of parental jealousy that come up for those queer couples where one parent is the biological parent.
Read The Argonauts instead!
Read The Argonauts instead!
frejola's review against another edition
4.0
Although a bit to the side of sitcom dramaturgy, this comedy performs well in what it sets out to do. First, it is a pretty accurate dramatization of the lives of gay dads. I should know because I'm one. And in fact, in my household I'm Dada and my husband is Papa to our kids - thus the title immediately grabbed me when I spotted a billboard of the play in NYC. The characters' banter is light, sometimes witty, each character is full fledged and rounded, the milieu is white upper middle class, the concerns are those of very privileged people, but there's a good parade of the issues gay parents face one time or another. So I see I'm not alone at all. And I cried at the end, Parnell definitely knows how to pull his strings admirably. Again, kudos for empathetic characters. Because my kids are already older than the children of the gay couples in the play, we now face many other issues that the play is blind to. That means that I sometimes thought that the main characters are a bit naive because they still can't see the troubles ahead (and that goes to heterosexual parents too, of course).
catdad77a45's review
3.0
Although the topic is trendy (gay parenting), the execution is a bit off. The dialogue just rings too much like 'dialogue', not as how actual people would speak ... and although the foreword makes clear it is at least semi-autobiographical, it seems to follow a schematic as far as hitting all the points the author wishes to make, which blunts the impact.
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