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...play's plot is complex. Jane (Lucia Brawley '99) and Tarik (Aaron Mathes '98), a young Arab-American couple, return to the house where Jane grew up in order to pack up her remaining belongings before her move to New York, where she is going to be a professional dancer. As soon as Tarik leaves Jane's room, the ghost of Deedee (Melissa Gibson '99), Jane's best friend from high school who died seven years earlier, appears and demands that Jane paint a portrait...

Author: By Theodore K. Gideonse, | Title: 'Arabian' Shows Promise Amid Chaos | 12/7/1995 | See Source »

Suddenly, the action of play shifts to the past and we learn how Jane and Deedee were required to be good Arab girls and how they also wanted to have fun like American girls. After watching the ways in which Jane's brother Samir (Santiago Tapia '97) and Deedee's boyfriend Nader (Andrew Pitcher '97) treat women, the audience is left with the impression that Arab-American men, with few exceptions, are evil: they only want sex from women and yet demand that all Arab women be virgins at marriage. The younger Tarik is seemingly virtuous, but his occasional sexist...

Author: By Theodore K. Gideonse, | Title: 'Arabian' Shows Promise Amid Chaos | 12/7/1995 | See Source »

...play climaxes when Deedee discovers she is pregnant with Nader's child. He has rejected her, and she is determined to have the child. Jane tries to convince Deedee to save the reputation of her family and have an abortion, but she flatly refuses. However, in the last five, extremely confusing and bizarre minutes of the play, it is revealed that Deedee died after a home abortion. Suddenly, back in the present, Jane begins to act like this is all a revelation to her (when it's not), and she seems to have some sort of an epiphany about being...

Author: By Theodore K. Gideonse, | Title: 'Arabian' Shows Promise Amid Chaos | 12/7/1995 | See Source »

...that he really requires an excuse to ventilate any and all comers. It is just that this is what the man does when he's not repairing to an opium den and losing himself in bad pipe dreams. Or drinking too much. Or resisting the advances of Calamity Jane (Ellen Barkin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: OUT WEST ON A BAD STAR TRIP | 12/4/1995 | See Source »

...brightest of their number is Noah Baumbach's Kicking and Screaming, the little fable of half a dozen or so college grads. It's an upmarket Clerks, a less fraught Jeffrey, Barcelona with a faster pulse--or maybe Friends on PBS. Grover (Josh Hamilton) doesn't want his girlfriend Jane (Olivia d'Abo) to go study in Prague--she'll "come back a bug." Max (Chris Eigeman), a guy so jaded that every new experience is deja vu, falls in with cheeky Kate (Cara Buono). Chet (Eric Stoltz) is a professional student, and Otis (the delightfully morose Carlos Jacott) apparently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: BACK CHAT | 12/4/1995 | See Source »

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