SPENDING

When artist Monica Szabo meets a successful, weathy admirer, they make a deal--he'll support her artistic endeavors in exchange for an intellectual and sexual relationship. Blair Brown is luscious as Monica, offering a provocative performance as she purrs with sensuality. Brown reveals a woman conflicted by the need to create while being limited by the need to earn a living. She discloses that Monica's hesitancy to exchange creative freedom for life as a "kept woman" hinges on her feminist values. Brown unveils an imaginative, prolific and driving personality whose fear of compromising personal ideals is overcome by the discovery of true love and magnificent achievement. B.J.P. ©AudioFile, Portland, Maine [Published: AUG/SEP 98]