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...characters in Marie Irene Fornes??€™ Conduct of Life bring to mind the Addams’ Family theme song. They’re creepy and they’re kooky, they’re mysterious and they’re ooky—they’re Orlando’s family, and they have arrived at the Loeb Experimental Theater in a chilling tale of torture and love...
...Fornes??€™ Obie-prize-winning play doesn’t rely much on plot, but rather rests on thematic analogies exploring the relationships between husband and wife, master and servant, and torturer and victim. The play then asks if these relationships are fundamentally all the same. As the first scene opens, a single figure, a very angry Orlando (Jared M. Greene ’03), laments his low rank in the army of some unknown Latin American country. He blames his sex drive for most of his troubles and vows to change...
...relationship in the play. Such violence works comically in the relationship between Leticia and her maid Olivia (Sarah E. Porter ’03), but cruelty inevitably pushes them to a terrifying end. Even the innocent and perpetually optimistic Nena accepts the unavoidable violence that plagues the world of Fornes??€™ characters...
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