Word: incestousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Then Pirandello's characters appear. Dressed in black, swaying against a white background, they know how to make a dramatic entrance. They have interrupted the rehearsal in order to convince the A.R.T. actors to play out their story, a tragicomic family drama of incest, betrayal and death. Finally convinced that it would be more fun than rehearsing for Sganarelle, the A.R.T. actors oblige. But strange things begin to happen as the actors blur the distinction between reality and illusion. The characters' entire visitation has a sense of mystery, marvelously enhanced by staging, make-up, and numerous feats of technical wizarry...
...slowly being pried off of "taboo" issues such as rape, incest, and child molestation, due to growing media coverage and increasingly alarming statistics on sex-related crimes: For example, according to Time, "in a survey of 930 women in San Francisco, 38 percent of the group said they had been sexually abused by age 18, and 28 percent by age 14. In a study of 521 Boston-area families, nearly 10 percent said their own children had been victims of sex abuse or attempted abuse...
...estates in the name of the Church, thereby revealing greed. To demonstrate his contempt for this false system of values, Cenci embarks on a spree of killing and feasting, all leading up to his "defilement" of his daughter Beatrice (Susan Kelly). "For me," he says, "life, death, god, incest, repentance, crime do not exist. I obey my own law." Finally, Cenci's angry wife and angrier daughter have him killed. All the preceeding facts are the parts of the play that are conclusively true. Everything else that the audience sees--embarrassingly florid and melodramatic orations, weird communions with the gods...
...denial of childhood experiences in psychoanalysis has allowed and condoned an oppression of female patients by a male-dominated profession. To Masson, Freud's theories ignore the early sexual traumas many women suffer, and therefore have led to undue skepticism towards the frequent, and very real, occurrence of incest and child rape...
Television ushered in the new year by cracking what it breathlessly billed as "the last taboo": incest. Liberal Minneapolis celebrated by backtracking a couple of taboos and considering a ban on pornography. One would have thought that that particular hang-up had been overcome. But even though the ban voted by the Minneapolis city council was eventually vetoed by Mayor Donald Fraser, pornography is evidently a hang-up of considerable tenacity. And according to the proposed law it is more than that: it is a violation of civil rights...