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Alan “Scooter” Zackeim ’06 as Doctor Goll and Mary E. Birnbaum ’07 as Lulu’s female admirer, Geschwitz, contributed memorable performances as Lulu’s lovers. As Alwa, playing another of Lulu’s lovers, Jess R. Burkle ’06 adds a more sophisticated but equally enjoyable comic dimension to the play with his keen sarcasm and biting wit. Alwa’s role soon grows more serious, however, along with the overall tone of the play. Lulu is implicated in the murder...
GRACE SHOHET portrays the play's most interesting and controversial character, the lesbian Countess Geschwitz, who sacrifices everything for Lulu. Wedekind created the only fully rounded human portrait in the role of Countees Geschwitz, and Shohet infuses it with pathos. Her despairing speech in the last act strikes one of the few sincere notes in an otherwise emotionally detached production...
...still in love with Schon, an abusive former lover. Schon tries to escape the Lulu hex with another woman, but Lulu later shoots him to death. And the round of grasping, joyless love goes on. Thoroughly depraved, Lulu even becomes involved with her stepson and a lesbian named Countess Geschwitz. Eventually she destroys both of them...
...when he learns of Lulu's sordid past. Then an elderly lecher marries her; when he discovers her trysting with his son, he offers her a gun to commit suicide and is promptly shot dead himself. Lulu is smuggled out of prison by another of her lovers, Countess Geschwitz, who fools the authorities by changing clothes with Lulu and taking her place ("Now," muses the ungrateful Lulu, "the poor monster sits in prison instead of me"). Lulu decamps to Paris, philanders with gamblers, procurers and swindlers. The end comes in a sordid London garret, where Lulu, now a common...
When Lulu was jailed for murder, homosexual Countess Geschwitz helped her escape. In Paris, Lulu philandered crazily with gamblers, procurers and swindlers. The end came in a sordid London attic. Impoverished Lulu combed the streets incessantly for men, made the mistake of bringing home Jack the Ripper. The orchestra reached a shuddering climax when the sadist disemboweled Lulu, concluded sombrely with Countess Geschwitz wailing over her "angel...