Word: enchantress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Under Colin Graham's direction, the story-adapted from two plays by German Pre-Expressionist Frank Wedekind-unfolds in swift, biting scenes (given fine clarity by Arthur Jacobs' translation). The mysterious Lulu is a dancer, an amoral enchantress, perhaps a force of nature. She first rises through society, then falls disastrously, as lovers contend for her elusive soul and all too accessible body. Throughout the opera, a large portrait of her hangs onstage-one of Berg's many specifications that were sometimes ignored in the past...
When I first met her she was so full of sex and gyzm, a real enchantress, she able to charm old winos, animals, and turn the odds on games of chance. We spent all our time in bars that winter, with psychotics and cocaine and morphine and rock'n roll. Me, I was a bit hungover and getting hungry, waiting for tunafish at the counter and she sat near me stuffing her face with coleslaw and milkshakes, dripping down her chin like drool and falling from her mouth...
...gets man. As it happens, the man, Jack Tanner (Ian Richardson), is an incendiary charmer with a blowtorch for a tongue. He yearns to puncture all the hypocritical balloons of civilized life. As for the woman, Ann Whitefield (Carole Shelley), she is a spiritedly fetching minx and a sly enchantress of guile to whom any man might feel lucky to surrender...
...anyone who has grown up male in the United States, driving an automobile transcends the rather rudimentary coordination one needs to stay in lane on highways. For reasons that swell Freudian literature, driving becomes a symbolic, even a sexual act. (Praised be the soft enchantress who likes the way we shift...
...Enchantress, but the lust of Satan's flesh...