Characters wrestle with class in 'Stick Fly'
Drawing-room comedies are supposed to be classics from a post-Victorian era, in which amusing situations play themselves out in ways that don't leave lasting scars. Then comes Stick Fly, which opened Wednesday at Arden Theatre Company with all the genre's outlines, but whose characters rip into each other with the 21st-century precision of Gods of Carnage, plus African American directness.