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...theory that children of alcoholics make brilliant mimics, because reality and identity for them are unstable, subject to sudden disappearances and weird transformations. They are constantly auditioning nuanced identities in hopes of pleasing insanely unpredictable parents. At the kitchen table now, Bly becomes his spiritual and poetic mentor, William Butler Yeats, going trancey and reciting The Lake Isle of Innisfree in a high Irish singsong, tone-deaf Yeats sliding up and down at the end of the line searching for the note...
...house was comfortable but hardly posh. A white-coated butler floated silently into and out of the various rooms where we talked throughout the afternoon and evening, offering water, beer, coffee, soda. As a moonfaced secretary transcribed our formal interview, Rodriguez picked his words carefully, frequently consulting and reciting verbatim from typewritten notes...
...Vice Presidents of the U.S., share a strange fate -- a shelved career, high office without power, a political glory all but lost in nonentity, and a galling kind of subservience. Good news: You are the second highest-ranking official in the land. Bad news: You are also the butler. Or the handyman. All you have is a faintly unclean hope of things to come...
Rule No. 1: Understand your market. His stores, he says, sell "cheap and tacky products." Rule No. 2: Form clear quality goals. "We also do cut-glass sherry decanters complete with six glasses on a silver-plated tray -- that your butler can serve you drinks on -- all for 4.95 pounds (($8.73)). People say, 'How can you sell this for such a low price?' I say because it is total crap." Rule No. 3: Evaluate how your product stacks up against all the competition. "We even sell a pair of earrings for under 1 pound (($1.76)), which is cheaper than...
...various entanglements and bring this production to a conclusion worthy of Oscar Wilde. The outcome is, of course, happy--the Prentices discover that Miss Barclay and Mr. Beckett are their long lost children, and the family is reunited. Chock full of these incestuous twists, this production of What the Butler Saw remains one of strangest yet most cleverly staged plays of the spring...