A Pleasant Dip in `The Gene Pool'

From: The Washington Post | Date: January 28, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

"The Gene Pool," Christi Stewart-Brown's bright domestic comedy that opened Saturday at Woolly Mammoth Theatre, puts a new twist on an old subject. Peter (Jeff Lofton), the 17-year-old son of Mira (Jennifer Mendenhall) and her partner, Claire (Kimberly Schraf), wants to know who his absent father is. This being the '90s, Dad is a sperm donor.

Complicating matters is an affair that Claire, a veterinarian, has recently had with a woman who, unlike the prissy Mira, likes animals. (This story doesn't really have much to do with the other, but Brown's a skillful enough writer to make us not ...

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