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...singer's 1937 death is peripheral to the main plot which centers around a bigoted white nurse (Marie Larkin), her "liberal-thinking" doctor boyfriend (Gavin Barbour) and the hospital's black orderly (Gut Bushfan). In an attempt to maintain universality, the characters are nameless, and yet they are too textured to be archetypal. The nurse wields as much authority as she can, threatening to have both the orderly--who is more educated than she--as well as the doctor who is always standing up for "them nigger," fired...
...Bushfan does an adequate job of orderly and for the most part caters to her every whim because his job depends on it. His lack of insurrection entrenches him in the picture of the status quo. It is the intern doctor who attempts to challenge the nurse in her ideology, and he makes the observation which is the crux of the play accusing, "The pillars of your house are blistered and peeling...
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