I had very conflicting feelings about this play. At first I was incredibly disturbed by the general acceptance and blatant disregard for racism that these characters had towards all races and cultures. The only knowledge I have of wrestling is from the few episodes I saw as a child in my babysitter's house. Her oldest son found great pleasure in these fictional fights and personalities on television. He is only a few years older than I and I ind it difficult to believe he remained uninfluenced by such a show at a young age. These characters were more than willing to become an offensive cliche of their culture, and that bothered the hell out of me. It would be similar to someone asking me to wear clothes from a concentration camp with a gas mask, paying me for it, and me enthusiastically accepting. It wasn't until the epilogue that I understood the authors intentions.
So, other than being incredibly frustrated by the characters throughout the reading process, I also felt that there was no subtlety in the writing. I understand that it was the authors choice to write this way, but it was all the more infuriating as a reader. It made me feel unintelligent and made the pace of the show very slow. Normally I can read a play quickly; this one took me several days. I couldn't keep putting it down.

read for class, an enthralling and impactful play to read, but the themes took a little longer to land than they should have and the ending was a little too ambiguous for my taste.

Rounding up on this interesting commentary piece