Word: edens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that Gairy's divine plan does not meet the needs of their down-to-earth little islands. That concern was heightened a few hours before independence, when Maurice Bishop was arrested and clamped in jail. In unconscious imitation of Marie Antoinette, Gairy said: "Grenada is a Garden of Eden. The people must eat bananas and local fruit in place of imported rice and flour...
...passions and unconscious drives, Fromm believes that the most important determinant of a man's character is society. Echoing arguments he has sprinkled throughout a score of earlier books, Fromm cites Mesopotamia's urban revolution in the third millennium B.C. as being the fall from Eden. At that point simple rural egalitarian society began giving way to cities, authoritarian rule and organized industrial and military power. Alienated from his work and no longer free, man needed new ways to express his humanity, to demonstrate that he could still affect the world around him. Thus warps of character appeared...
...girls bare to the waist, nymphs cavorting in primal innocence. Slowly, and with chilling ominousness, one wooden bar after another slams into place across the face of the cave, as if civilization were sundering these two worlds for all time to come. It is an expulsion from Eden...
Bernard Shaw's proverbial preface to the original says the play (or this section of it) is about Darwinism and the expectations of man in history. Yet the drama itself doesn't compress this: it's downright expansive--not an easy effect when your setting is the Garden of Eden and you want to speak simply but not so simply that everything seems symbolic. Director Rob Hershman works with the expansiveness, and when he gets such fine performances out of Richard Bangs and Adam and Catherine Dean as Eve, what emerges is something that shovels ideas less than it rolls...
...this week, either, just the first part, which is about the Garden of Eden and includes a lot of wit, occasional profundity and something about some men seeing things that never were and saying why not--that line often used to get attributed to Robert F. Kennedy '48. Opens tonight at 7:30 at the Loeb Ex; tickets are free, as usual...