Word: hollander
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...everyone "know his place." These facts are so overarching that we tend to take them for granted, but they are inherently more dramatic than the domestic squabbles and psychological revelations at the heart of most U.S. theater. It is the daring, and impressively achieved, ambition of Endesha Ida Mae Holland to make this arc of change the subject of a single play and to illuminate it all in the more-or-less true story of one black woman: herself...
From the Mississippi Delta, which opened off-Broadway last week after extensive regional tryouts, blends folktales, childhood memories, salty down- home sociological observations and blues and gospel standards with Holland's unabashed "confessions." Raped in childhood, a prostitute as a teenager, she eventually earned a Ph.D. and now teaches American studies at the State University of New York at Buffalo. The first act, about the world she came from, is diffuse, as much panorama as autobiography. The second is more tightly personal, yet it too derives from the oldest notion of the theater -- as pure storytelling. Three stunningly gifted women...
...writer's bond with her mother, an uneducated but adept midwife who, in vintage American style, inspired her children to make something of themselves by seizing opportunities she never had. Her foibles and uproarious back-country ways are evoked unflinchingly but without disrespect. It is a measure of Holland's gifts (and of Bruce's acting) that the mother never seems a plaster saint, even when she is a true martyr -- fatally burned in a house fire that was apparently retaliation for the daughter's civil rights activism...
Since the French Revolution, crowns (and crowned heads) have rolled across the Western world. Yet monarchies that adapted to democracy still survive in most of the countries of northwestern Europe -- Britain, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden -- plus Spain. They have lasted up to the eve of the 21st century because their subjects find them useful, even in a democratic...
They are either lying or terrifically ignorant of the only Western country in which euthanasia is widely practiced. Holland has had semi-legal euthanasia for about 20 years and has more safeguards than the Washington law would have had. The picture for patients in Holland grows uglier...