“It’s a clichéd saying, but the cycle of poverty is true. It really is a cycle,” Phifer said.

Even for tokens, these women tend to be pretty cliched: They wear leather and heels, even though neither are conducive to fighting.

The divas and cavaliers of this all-male troupe are — as they present themselves to us in performance — fabulously stupid, artificial, hammy, clichéd, superficial, dated, monstrous.