Hare is certainly the brightest literary satirist in the underground. His plays tend to reflect the self-enclosed and, finally, self-defeating society which surrounds middle-class 'progressive' groups…. Unlike many underground writers, he is able to satirize the pretensions of progressives as bitingly as those of reactionaries. A desire for revolution can also imply a purely middle-class endeavour to jump on the latest cultural or political bandwagon. (p. 11)

Although Slag provides a platform for a discussion of feminist views, which is frequently absent from our male-orientated theatres, the play lacks any genuine commitment to its central subject. Indeed Hare tends to treat the characters as chromosomes, stretching their roles and attitudes as a kind of theatrical experiment in a laboratory. His women are female pieces of elastic, mouthpieces for stretching and promptly snapping various fashionable notions about Women's Lib. Several of the scenes, such as the lesbian encounter between Elise...