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...issues than Butterfly. Butterfly attempts to compose a theory of the other which takes into account racism, sexism, imperialism--and tries to create a system in which all these factors work together. This play is basically about race, about whether race is real or mythological, whether it's a construct that has any usefulness...
This idea of difference as construct, it's been contemplated in other places, Prelude to a Kiss on Broadway, the film, "The Crying Game." Do you think there's a high level of interest, receptivity, for theorizing about constructions of other...
Director Robert J. Bouffier's production of Irma Vep features wonderful acting and clever bits of direction. It simple set, lighting and sound designs construct a perfectly eerie mood...
...guilt of the survivor is a familiar psychological construct. That observation could be applied to the novel, but would not do justice to Begley's imagination and authority as a writer. Ben's feelings about his escape from the Holocaust and his transformation into an affluent non-Jewish Jew in America are complex and ironic. He is too intelligent to misinterpret his problem but too emotionally bottled up to solve it. Begley shares some of his resume with Ben, but he has not written an autobiography. The Man Who Was Late is a what-if novel -- specifically, What...
WYATT PALMER IS THE ASSIStant city manager of Five Oaks, Michigan. His wife Susan likes to walk on her hands, pull her pet rabbit out of a hat and construct miniature stage sets. Aunt Ellen is writing the Bible, and Wyatt's sweetly psychotic mother Jeanne makes up 50 cents words like nutomberized, descorbitant and corilineal, which she defines as "so normal, it's strange...