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...VLADIMIR NABOKOV: THE AMERICAN YEARS by Brian Boyd...
Conversely, Leo Cabranes-Grant's production of Fool for Love does not quite live up to the script. The play opens just after Eddie (Charles Marcus) has found his lover, May (Catherine Boyd), after a separation. Sam Shepard shows how their passionate, incestuous relationship ensnares them...
...Boyd and Marcus must be simultaneously attracted to and repelled by each other. Shepard has instructed the actors to do this by clinging to the walls and banging against them recklessly to show their claustrophobia. In all fairness, this direction does not make much sense when reading the play--it makes even less sense in this production because the Cabranes-Grant's set is not cramped. As a result, the audience merely wonders why the actors cannot unpeel themselves from the walls...
Catherine Boyd, though shaky at first, gives a credible performance. Her attempts at angst fail, but in later scenes she is convincing. For example, she explains Eddie's presence as the man whom Martin assumed was raping her by declaring with perfect understatement, "He's--uh--my cousin...
...Klansman, must have been taken aback when a black Pentecostal church in Memphis invited him to speak at a rally to raise money for a gymnasium to serve inner-city black youths. "Duke draws a crowd, he has a message and he says he's a Christian," explained Jimmy Boyd, the owner of a local gospel radio station, who arranged the event...