←Recommendations of A Comedy of Manners

OK, I'm a sucker for modern mores examined in classic styles and POLYCULE delivers a setup Moliere would find irresistible. Fern from Dubuque joins her boyfriend and his wife for dinner as a potential trois to their menage. Only to find that the interview process includes the other four members of their poly-paradise. Fern learns that free love entails more rules than the tax code and just as many schemes to subvert those those rules. As one character points out it's a farce without doors. Doors would only slow down this freewheeling comedy in verse. C'est extraordinare.

This is absolutely brilliant. The amazing construction of this poetic musing on Moliere and the sexual politics of polyamorous relationships just hits all the right buttons. Jillian has entered into a sublime zone where the dialogue is both natural and highly structured. A truly epic work! Brava!

The sexy complex world Jillian Blevins creates with THE POLYCULE is incredible, mind-boggling, very very great. The conceit of combining Moliere’s aesthetics with a trip into a poly-sexual household is - Wow! The rhyming humor couples with curiosity as we move with novitiate Fern through the relationship maze. Her entry gives structure to a play that follows a group character arc. With New Relationship Energy, I fell into the fold. Blevins maps out the spheres of influence six dazzling characters have on each other. And by the flawless ending, I was thunderstruck by all I was feeling. Read this!

This Moliere style comedy is delightfully entertaining! THE POLYCULE lovingly skewers the foibles and pitfalls of polyamory from inside the community. There are so many laugh out loud moments, particularly for those familiar with either the conventions of Restoration Comedy, the Polyam community, or both. And I found myself yelling "NO!" as the characters essentially send their own relationships up in flames. Jillian Blevins adds to this with gorgeously constructed verse in rhyming couplets.

If you are looking for an ensemble-focused, full-length comedy this is the play for you!

In THE POLYCULE, Jillian Blevins has given us the modern comedy Moliere would write were he around today, observing the sexual and gender politics of the 21st century. A perfect marriage of form and content, Blevins rhyming couplets mine comic gold from the complex rules, taboos, and self-identifications of this non-monogamous circle of characters, as well as the secrets, self-deceptions, and hypocrisies that lie underneath. The real marvel is she does all this without belittling anyone's gender identity or sexual interests: though set in a specific demi-monde, it's a remarkably warm-hearted skewering of universal human foibles. Brava!