The play's deliberately fractured action careens between genuinely dramatic intensity and inexplicable weirdness.
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Kiki's frazzled morning slams to a halt when she gets locked in the basement bathroom of a Starbucks.
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Always playing, Ashbery writes inexplicable sentences in utterly graceful English.
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It spoofs Off-Broadway and the gay club scene, yet it's a delicious entertainment for everyone.
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