Theatre Terrific's Dirty White is a poetic parable that draws inspiration from Ovid's Metamorphosis.  Director and playwright Susanna Uchatius shows a deft hand when it comes to metaphoric language: the play is rich with imagery and absurdist aphorisms whose meanings are cryptically slanted but still honed to an edge.  Dirty White avoids the common pitfall of deliberately poetic writing by steering clear of extended, repetitious passages: though it is unabashedly lyrical writing, the phrasing is tight and the imagery varied.