‘Pamela’ has enormous balls
Ten minutes into the dress rehearsal of the Yale Cabaret's "Pamela Precious: A Balls-out Love Story," I thought I might have hit the jackpot, might have finally arrived at the moment every theater critic dreams of — the chance to write a really bad review. Something extravagantly and enthusiastically mean. Something along the lines of Zachary Fuhrer’s ’11 “‘Monty,’ flaccid, still somehow performs,” perhaps.
All the pieces seemed to be in place: the two lead men (Brian Hastert DRA ’09 and playwright Matt Moses DRA ’09), high school teachers and childhood friends, are unsympathetic,...