What I found remarkable about the way the playwright has structured each character's growth is that the person with the ability to trigger a startling chain reaction is neither the oldest, the neediest, the best educated, or the most manipulative.
Laurence Mitchell subtly shows you the painful self-mistrust of the paedophilic young man, establishing how (in a way) neither of these needy people want to play the kinky forfeit game the older one has instigated and that only Oscar's flash of clairvoyance about the man's married status serves to prevent.
As long as it focuses on its feverishly needy central characters, neither of whom you would ever want to have as a friend, it remains true to itself.
She won't let you feel sorry for her, which is greatly to her credit in this age of needy, tell-all celebrity memoirs, but neither can she relax or stop joking.
Even if there was an independent body of SportsWorld therapists available to help the needy, one can assume that neither Knight nor Indiana would sit for a session.
Government was limited, local, even intimate, because it was neither hijacked from above by the aristocrats nor from below by the needy, appetitive mob.
Needy ex-husband and lascivious mother hover in near orbit, neither successfully independent.
Three months on, Alex Salmond has obtained a safe seat to carry him to Westminster, Nicola Sturgeon coasts along promising referendum 2 and neither has yet been called upon to answer their false promises to the needy in Scotland.
But Stamford has neither the army of preservationists so common in richer towns nor the problems of needier towns that, in their own loopy way, deter builders from replacing old buildings with new.
The tale could be cast as an elite school failing a needy student or a student unwilling to be helped, but neither explanation does justice to an issue as complicated as higher education and class.
