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...they pursue the men, and each other, with tireless voracity. In the second act, which is set in 1979 London, the frolics include an orgy in which Clive's daughter Victoria (Cori Lynn Peterson) invokes Ishtar while romping with her gay brother Edward (now played by Brain van Gorder) and her lesbian lover Lynn (Vonnie Roemer...
...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...
...Bryan E. Van Gorder), Mrs. McLeavy's unsentimental son, has no qualms about hiding the loot from his bank theft in his mother's coffin and stuffing her naked corpse into a bureau ("it's a Freudian nightmare," he comments offhandeldy). Hal's partner in crime and sometime lover is Dennis (Robert de Neufville), an undertaker's assistant whose Protestant upbringing has given him "every luxury--atheism, breast-feeding, circumcision...
Another interesting idea whose significance is unclear is the race and gender reversals among the cast. Actress Cori Lynn Peterson is cast as boy mechanic Billy Biker, Stranger's sidekick. Japanese Mr. Yamarama is played by Bryan Van Gorder, a white actor. "Frank" and "Hank" (Sarah Sidman and Vonnie Roemer) are two valley-girl types wearing black sunglasses and neon bolero tops...
...thought they just planned a cute one and decided to test it early," Van Gorder said...