A venerable frat peopled by too-talky stereotypes By Toby Zinman
Smug, horny, privileged, self-important, football-obsessed frat boys. Unlike the cloying <em>Dead Poets Society</em> or the brilliant <em>History Boys</em>, <em>The Eclectic Society</em> is a play without adult characters, and after a couple of hours, a stageful of pre-civil rights, postadolescent college students, all making speeches at each other, can, and does, wear thin.