The Naked Eye

Take a photographer modeled on Robert Mapplethorpe (only funnier), stir in his lesbian assistant who rages at people who use bad French, mix with an uptight senator campaigning for President, his socially prominent wife, his finishing-school daughter, and his gorgeously vacant mistress (a former Playboy, Miss August), and you get The Naked Eye—a farce for the ’90s about the collision of art, sex, society and politics. Part comedy of manners, part over-the-top cartoon, The Naked Eye is the latest work by one of this country’s most admired young playwrights, best known for his hugely successful comedies I Hate Hamlet and Jeffrey (recently released as a major motion picture).