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I cannot say when I have ever been more heartily bored and disgruntled by a production such as The Age of Arousal. I found myself falling asleep which is something I have never done before. I found the "fantasy" unfanciful and the "dream of Victorian England" a total nightmare. It was more a tumultuous mess than one of "change" The dialogs in which several of the actors were talking were especially annoying. I especially loathed the interjecting of "repressed thoughts". And I found the actors talking too fast at times to understand what they were saying. Miss Griffiths should stick to the idea of writing within the context of a subject and not use her mish-mash formula of "dancing" between personal, political, and the fantastic. People were laughing and I totally failed to see any humor in the play. And if Janus Stefanowicz designed the costumes, all I can say is that I have not seen such a amateurish, high school look to costuming in such a long time. A total re-write and re-design of this play is in order. I am a "Mechant Ivory" fan myself and never felt quilty over their well produced, well spoken and well dressed productions. Take a cue, Linda Griffiths!This play was hardly "feminist" but just goes to show that neither women nor men can "have it all" Everything has its price and the play only showed how little women have come along,how much they added to their stress levels and that human nature never changes. I cannot think nor remember anything remarkable about this play.