SOURCE: Brustein, Robert. Review of Hot Fudge with Ice Cream, by Caryl Churchill. New Republic 203, no. 3938 (9 July 1990): 34.

In the following laudatory review, Brustein praises Churchill's coupling of two plays Hot Fudge with Ice Cream.

Ice Cream with Hot Fudge at the New York Public's Newman Theater is actually two short plays, the second of which is as nourishing as the title. The opener, Hot Fudge, more a topping than a full dessert, is about bored rich people who meet around drinks at various locations, talking about money scams, real estate, image-making, careers—and above all, vacations. (“Where can we go where the beaches aren't full of shit?”) Their accidie, which masks a dangerous inner discontent, erupts at the play's end with a violent spat between one of the characters and his ex-wife. Hot Fudge is only a sketch, but the machine-gun rhythms of Churchill's overlapping dialogue (which owes...