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...business having feelings," says the bombastic Victorian patriarch Clive (David Travis) to his son Edward (Jennifer Sun), who is crying because his doll was taken away. But in fact at the boys and men in "Cloud Nine" are full of feelings--usually lusty and often for each other--which they indulge at every opportunity...
...women also go beyond their duty to the empire: not only do they "lie still and think of England," but they pursue the men, and each other, with tireless voracity. In the second act, which is set in 1979 London, the frolics include an orgy in which Clive's daughter Victoria (Cori Lynn Peterson) invokes Ishtar while romping with her gay brother Edward (now played by Brain van Gorder) and her lesbian lover Lynn (Vonnie Roemer...
...first act is set in Victorian colonial Africa and revolves around the sexual tensions disrupting the "perfect" household of Clive and his wife Betty (Brain van Gorder). The casting in this play frequently crosses gender and racial lines, and in the first act this seems to indicate that Clive and his imperialistic patriarchal attempts to "tame" women and the Dark Continent have distorted the true natures of the other characters...
Thus Betty (played by a man) describes herself as "a man's creation," and Clive's "black" servant/protege (played by the blond John Knepper) insists that "my soul is white" and "I hate my tribe." Edward is supposed to be a boy but is played by a girl, which accords well with his "sissy" traits like playing with dolls and hating his father's bullying ways...
Part of the reason may be that beta-agonists work too well at providing relief. "If you're allergic to a cat, and a cat walks into the room, you'll cough and wheeze," explains Dr. Clive Page of the University of London. "What your body is saying is 'Leave the room or get rid of the cat.' What you actually do is use your inhaler. You feel wonderful and sit there watching the television with the cat." Meanwhile, the inflammation gets worse because the lungs are still being exposed to allergen. "By dampening down the symptoms, you feel better...