Lampooning love
I Love You, Youâre Perfect, Now Change, which ran last week at the Network Theatre, London, presents a sequence of comical vignettes of different stages of relationships and romance. Highlighting the problems of relationships in capitalist society, the show immediately draws comparisons between gender roles and attitudes, with the men possessing overbearing egos, while the women are waiting at home for telephone calls, or for the final seconds of a football match to arrive. The musical ran for 12 years off-Broadway in New York in 1996-2008. This production intertwines scenes of heterosexual...