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...Probably when I was fourteen, a pretentious fourteen-year-old... I was a very ambitious child, and it was generalized ambition--I want to be something great, if it's president fine, if it's an opera singer fine. Then poetry took me over when I was fourteen. I started with H.D., Hilda Doolittle. Then I want to T.S. Eliot and I didn't know what the hell was going on, but I liked the noises it made...
...Fourteen years old now, Kimberly is determined to rid herself of the Twiggs forever. She has got her own attorney, who has filed to terminate the Twiggs' rights as her natural parents. Like Gregory K., the 12-year-old boy who successfully sued to be separated from his parents, she wants to "divorce" hers. She is represented by George Russ, Gregory K.'s lawyer. "She has lived in fear for five years of being taken from her father in the name of her so- called biological parents," argues Russ. "The problem is we've defined parenthood in terms of biology...
...show opens and closes with the same musical number, "In Trousers, the Dream," but in the intervening one and a half hours, twenty-six songs take us through "Marvin's Regression," as we watch Marvin turn fourteen, break hearts, fall in love with women, fall in love with men, get married for ten years, have a son, have seizures, have breakfast, have sex and fantasize recurringly about being Christopher Columbus...
Nine songs make up the core of this short, hour-and-a-half production, sung against back-drops ranging from a business club in London to the streets of Paris, from China to India to New York City. The small, fourteen-member orchestra, conducted by Steven Huang, gives Peters a rare opportunity to actually see and hear his music come off the page...
...Fourteen years later, many students say that while the ART provides valuable resources and expertise to student productions, the professionals at the company are no surrogate for a formal theater program or for tenured professors of the dramatic arts...