KILLING FOR COMPANY.("Medea")(Imaginary Friends)(Adult Entertainment)(Theater Review)

Reader, have you been betrayed in love? Injustice poisons the soul and, worse, the memory of love. The betrayer lives and owns a future; you, the forgotten, die the slow death of abandonment and humiliation, with just the inheritance of empty days. Out of powerlessness, you dream murderous thoughts. You have been demeaned and discarded; you want to plant pain in the other's heart, and watch it grow. Razor blades in the bed? A dousing with hot oil? Headlights punched out? Clothes cut to shreds? Children abducted? These are not tabloid sidebars but actual matrimonial paybacks that I've witnessed among the comparatively reserved and well-educated burghers of my acquaintance ...