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...over. Happily, straight plays seem to be filling the gap. Demanding dramas like Michael Frayn's Copenhagen have become unlikely Broadway hits, while the Manhattan Theatre Club, an off-Broadway stalwart, successfully transferred two strong works, Proof and The Tale of the Allergist's Wife, to the main drag this fall. With regional theaters thriving and even Las Vegas playing host to performance troupes like Blue Man Group, the stage is alive and bustling...
...tweak stuffy pomposity again and again: "Those in the cheaper seats clap. The rest of you just rattle your jewelry." And I will weep still more tears at the loss of a man who inspired me in my childhood - and who inspires me to this day. It's a drag. And I'm inconsolable...
Though it's clear that Kaufman researched Wilde, for we are continually provided with sources for the dialogues, diary entries and speeches, some of the evidence, especially in the courtroom, tends to drag. It is difficult to tell if Sir Edward Clark (Seth Fenton '01) purposly reads each piece of evidence with as little emotion or sense of sentence flow as possible so that Wilde's exchanges sound juvenile or if Clark is merely reading the evidence unintelligibly...
...between the pieces. Among the four men and three women photographers are two of my favorites, David Hilliard and Francesca Woodman. Also represented is Linn Underhill, who uses herself as her own model. She dresses up to look like a debonair of the late '40s, reversing the concept of drag queen to drag king. A portrait of a doll leg by David Levinthal, who takes large-format Polaroids of collectable fetish dolls, is included. A similar interest in surrogate female forms is found in Chris Komater's piece "Turner" (a reference to the film star Lana Turner), an assemblage...
...Jeremiah, who are throwing a dinner party for two couples, each of which is an alternate version of Georges and his girlfriend Chery. Georges 2 is a pimp whose assets include Chery 2; George 3 is Georgia, a woman, and Chery #3 is Chuck, a man who dresses in drag. And about halfway through the play, the disembodied voice of the Master announces, humorously, that the "play is a critical commentary on the misplaced values of the twentieth century underscored by elements of Ionescoesque absurdism...