A lot of bull.(Separating the Men from the Bull (The MikeandNeal Show))(Brief Article)

American Theatre, January, 2004 by Sampson

MINNEAPOLIS: Separating the Men from the Bull (The MikeandNeal Show), running through Jan. 18 at Jungle Theater, is a show in seven vignettes about men's relationships with other men--and bulls' relationships with other bulls. The bulls (who are grappling with their roles as studs) as well as the men are played by Michael Heintzman (with glasses) and Neal Lerner, who co-wrote the show. Their human specimens include a pair of shy guys who run a shyness-awareness clinic; two 10-year-old boys watching a girl in a window; and two old friends spreading a third friend's ashes on the Delaware River. As Lerner puts it, "This is a play about men put in situations"--"extreme circumstances," Heintzman interjects--"where they have to deal with each other in a different way." And...

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