Word: edwardes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...occasion to resign, saying that she thought education was not a top priority for Coach Driesell. Marshall claimed that the coach had urged members of the team to be careful in talking to authorities about drugs and Bias' death. Driesell denied the charge and asked his longtime attorney, Edward Bennett Williams, to represent him during grand-jury hearings this week...
...Harry is also not adverse to Clive's budding homosexual of a son Edward (Jane Loranger) who loves dolls and "Uncle Harry." In the midst of all this sexual confusion, Victoria--a plastic/rag doll who represents Clive's daughter remains impervious to her sexual identity as she gets casually tossed from character to character...
...Betty (now played by Peers) becomes progressively liberal, she leaves the repressive Clive and achieves freedom as she finds her masturbatory adventures exemplify. In case this doesn't seem enough like a Greek tragedy, the erstwhile homosexual son Edward (now played by Zelman) who has been dumped by his lover begins to discover that he wants to be a woman. After telling his sister of his new-found desire and enviously touching her breasts in a surprisingly tender and unsexual scene, Edward proclaims, "I want to be a lesbian...
...this play of sexual charades, Edward's announcement comes as little surprise. For the play is all about repression and conforming to sexual expectations, or not. Every character in Cloud 9 is trying to break free of repression and act only as he or she wishes. Mired in having to hide perversities behind closed doors in the Victorian age, the characters have no hope of achieving any freedom...
...homosexual Edward who enjoys being passive is played by Zelman who formerly played Betty, the obedient Victorian wife. The young Edward who vascillated in the first act between wishing he could play with dolls or be with the men becomes transformed into the adult Victoria who also seems unable to decide her own destiny. And Betty becomes more self-confident as the woman who plays the domineering Mrs. Sanders in the first act takes on the role of Betty in the second...