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Frankie J. Petrosino’s buck is subtitled “a new play about love, race, and the price of sex.” While the play hammers home the issue of race, some of the more interesting questions it raises regarding gender and sexuality are picked up but never sufficiently addressed, let alone resolved...
Although any dramatic production cannot convey onstage every event related to its characters or plotting, buck misguidedly approaches this limitation by only showing the most highly charged scenes, recounting the rest via narration. This approach runs into difficulty when many of the same types of scenes are presented, such as multiple iterations of Lincoln in the bedroom with the white woman and the white “master...
While everyone recognizes the existence of a code between blacks and whites, few characters seem conscious of a similar code between men and women. The male dominates the female in buck, whether it be Brett silencing Jane’s voice of resistance, Lincoln having sex with Jane as a mere bodily stand-in for the white women, or Robert Aniston denying his wife Amanda’s claim that her sex with Lincoln was consensual...
...buck is a frank and serious attempt to bring to the forefront issues which should be engaged in a theatrical setting. It is unfortunate that the piece is ultimately blemished by the irony that, in this portrait of the Jim Crow South, while the lack of female perspective is suggested as problematic, the play’s structure does not provide an adequate forum for such a perspective to be communicated...
...wired version, $250 for wireless. Networking cards for each PC are $50. Customers must install the gear, but for $9.95 a month they get unlimited phone-based technical support and a promise that no matter what the trouble is--poor network connection, faulty router--EarthLink won't pass the buck. Gateway, a PC manufacturer that also sells broadband services and networking equipment, goes a step further: for $399, it will send a technician to your house to install the equipment and configure each computer (often the trickiest part of the setup process). A crash course in home networking is also...