1.   Bogosian can be a blisteringly good social critic under the right circumstances, but as a novelist he remains a playwright, most adept at dialogue or internal monologue.

2.   In an internal monologue, the speaking voice of her more vulnerable self, Alexis expresses utter revulsion at her own callousness.

3.   Instead, their internal monologues are delivered to the audience.

4.   One is the river of writers, comedians, monologuists, that voice of the internal monologue of novels, the stream of consciousness.

5.   These three do achieve a hypnotic, chamber music effect in a scene of overlapping internal monologues.

6.   We get to know bits about them through their internal monologues, though at times it is unclear whose thoughts are being voiced.