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Lee DeLong's play Strange Glove owes and acknowledges an obvious debt to Genet's The Maids; but the material from which it is fashioned is flimsier, and shaped as broad comedy.

Two sisters, employed as maids, play a variety of games. They act out mistress and servant, religious rites, flirtations with the milkman and sundry other charades. Some sinister stuff is suggested, but so tenuously that an attempted suicide comes across as no more than another grab for a laugh. The comedy scenario is underpinned by having the sisters wear false noses and ill-fitting costumes, a pair of female clowns who might grace a circus ring. Ambition for more, which the play clearly aspires to, should be made of sterner stuff.

Valerie Coyne and Brid Ni Chionaola, directed by the author, display engaging comic talents. Their flair and verve continuously amuse, to save the evening.

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