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...Francisco, Adam lives with Huck, who somehow maganes to be raising a one-year old child, Christopher. Adam wonders who the child's mother is. But he doesn't ask. Then, this woman Lucille, who refuses to wear anything but men's tuxedos begins to show up in Adam's room at bizarre hours of the night, just to make love to him and then leave as mysteriously as she enters. Adam sees her during the day, but he is unwilling to ask her where their relationship stands. He does not even presume to think that they are lovers...
...Adam is disturbed by the situation, he doesn't react. Nor does he question or even talk to Huck about the various homosexual men with whom he spends the night in their apartment. These are the 1980s, the book seems to say, the era of acceptance...
Like myths of Eden, the stories of Huck and Tom endure in the American imagination. But they have a dark side too. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck's journey in the Delectable Land is also a drama of alcoholism, child abuse, young runaways, social breakdown, violence, hypocrisy, racism and a child's struggle to understand right and wrong in a society that has lost its bearings. Huckleberry Finn is still the best book about American childhood, as contemporary as a milk carton bearing the photograph of a missing child...
...coming World War, why has he endured so long? Partly because troubled times have endured in other forms, and partly because he has always had qualities that go beyond the flying fists. He was orphaned, and thus forced to rely on himself, just like Little Orphan Annie or Huck Finn. He is a foreigner from outer space in a land built by foreigners. And he is one of the good guys, fighting for "truth, justice and the American way," which seems to many people a very good thing to do. Superman's violence is never cruel, however; he punches villains...
Goodman, whose earlier play "Hester Meets Huck Finn" was presented at Lincoln Center last year as part of the Showcase for the National Advancement of the Arts, is also the director...