Word: gorder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...applaud you for gracing your cover with a woman who is one of the strongest and most courageous spiritual leaders of our time." BARBARA VAN GORDER Washington...
Although his part is small, Bryan Van Gorder proves memorable as Mike's "Mum." The mother dreams of a life of art and manners as an escape from her marriage. Richard Nash as the bitter husband provides the play's best moment with his demonstration of a 1939 riot using his lunch. As he spews hatred for the Jews he marched against, he spews cupcake, strawberry jam, and hot cross buns all over the stage and the audience...
...first act is set in Victorian colonial Africa and revolves around the sexual tensions disrupting the "perfect" household of Clive and his wife Betty (Brain van Gorder). The casting in this play frequently crosses gender and racial lines, and in the first act this seems to indicate that Clive and his imperialistic patriarchal attempts to "tame" women and the Dark Continent have distorted the true natures of the other characters...
Victoria, played by a doll in the first act, is now played by Cori Lynn Peterson, who was her grandmother in the first act. David Travis, formerly Clive, is now the goofy, spoiled toddler Kathy, whose mother is Victoria's friend Lynn (Vonnie Roemer). Bryan van Gorder and Jennifer Sun have exchanged roles, so that both Edward and Betty are played by the right sex. In the latter's case, this may mean that son and mother have found their true selves: he is gay, and she has left Clive and found...
...little until her mother found out and made her stop. Now that she's left Clive, she's started doing it again, and has discovered that she is a real person in her own right without a man to give her an identity. The previous Betty (Bryan van Gorder) comes out and embraces her as the play ends...