Yale Daily News

Updated: Monday, November 23, 2009 1:03 a.m.

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Gender politics, sitcom-style

Published Friday, November 7, 2008

Lucinda Coxon’s “Happy Now?” at the Yale Repertory Theater plays like an entertaining and gripping marathon of a TV show about five 30-something professionals in London dealing with the difficulties of balancing work and family in a fast-paced modern world. Replete with characters we know and love — the gay best friend, the asshole who repents in the eleventh hour, the misguided but well-intentioned guy, the smart but somewhat neurotic female lead — it is a well-crafted sitcom dressed up and taken out to the theater.

To be fair, most sitcoms don’t deal nearly as deftly with...

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