The brief appearance last week of "Titanic" and "Das Lusitania Songspiel" was my first exposure to the comedy of young Christopher Durang…. From the evidence presented, Mr. Durang is a spirited, original fellow …, who brings back to the theatre a welcome impudence and irreverence. "Das Lusitania Songspiel," which started the evening, and which was actually cabaret, was described in the program as "The Theatre Songs of Bertolt Breck," but Breck/Brecht really had very little to do with anything onstage, except for some offhand references to him and some fake attributions ("Swiss Family Trapp, from 'Mother Courage'"); in fact, one of the funniest routines was a tableau from "Barry Lyndon." (pp. 103-04)

"Titanic" was a merry and (innocently) obscene farce, with on-and-off good jokes and not a trace of boring camp, yet I ran out of laughter long before the actors ran out of steam. Few sexual perversions...