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...ever gone? On today's fully occupied planet, there are few places left where indigenous peoples do not hunt and trap or where loggers and mining companies have not sent in teams of surveyors. The great forests east of the Ndoki River may be the earth's last Eden...
When God dispels Adam and Eve from Eden, the changelings strip the set of all color. They deface the tree and remove the colored cloths that represent the spirit of Eden, which reduces the set to blackness and acts as a metaphor for the darkness which surrounds the couple's existence after their expulsion...
Taussig easily claims the title of most theatrically fluent and effective performer for her portrayal of everything from a fragile changeling in Eden to a violent Cain. Michael Wertheim is effective as the insecure Adam, and Walling smoothly transforms the self-assured Eve into a dependent and nurturing mother. Vanessa Parise deserves praise for her convincing portrayal of the Snake with the draconian character which includes Eve to succumb to temptation...
...denouement depicts Eve's death and Adam's realization that although they had been expelled from Eden, for Adam "wherever Eve was, there was Eden." Schwartz direct this scene well and the combined effects of the set, the lights and the music along with the spatial placement of the characters present a dramatic and effective finale...
Then suddenly Noel Ignatiev, a non-resident tutor, a veritable serpent in the new Eden, threatens your single, tiny, $40 toaster oven--the only oven of orthodox observance in any dining hall on campus...