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Angela Delichatsios, playing "Georgie" LeFranc, holds the entire production together. Her marvelous mannerisms and convincing drawl provide the framework for a fully developed character who embodies much of the subtle nuances of affected masculinity which lie at the heart of Genet's LeFranc. Her representation of his desires and fears provides the primary intrigue for the play, and it is through her LeFranc that the play progresses. LeFranc's conflicting desire and contempt for Maurice culminate in the climactic scene which ingeniously blurs the lines between sexual and physical violence. This radiant scene captures in a few moments the entirety...
...performance of Green Eyes is one-sided. Her character convincingly grapples with the poetics of existentialist fate and the maddening embrace of nihilism, but lacks the raw masculine coolness, control, and beauty that give Genet's character his depth and charisma. However, this weakness is compensated by both LeFranc's and Maurice's credible attraction for him, an attraction which renders Green Eyes more full than Wohl's performance alone...
Constantly taunting LeFranc and doting on Green Eyes, Maurice, played by Jessie Cohen, is the crucial tragic link between the two dominant men. Cohen delivers her performance with coquettish finesse, though it often becomes more irritating than attractive. Through her ability to bring out Maurice's naivete and fragile ego, she succeeds in shaping the tragic victim of masculine power games. Cohen is at her best during the penultimate scene in which her character, imbued with all the cattiness of a young boy in a man's world, challenges LeFranc...
...even just to witness Angela Delichatsios's roughly sexual and smolderingly psychological performance, Deathwatch is well worth the trip to the Adams House tunnels. Genet fans, especially, will relish her delivery of LeFranc. There are slow moments (the first scene with the guard is unquestionably the worst), and there are moments when Genet's abrasion and sexual dynamism are disappointingly watered down. But, overall, the play hums along with only a few unnecessary bumps and lulls...
...most other campus protests, the great majority of students seems either uninterested in or scornful of the sexual-freedom movement. Stanford Junior Suzanne Lefranc condemns the Forum for "turning sex into a personal joke-selling lapel buttons with snickering slogans." And Berkeley's Jerry Goldstein, president of the campus student government, calls it all "so absurd that I don't think students are paying attention to it." As for any legal action against licentiousness at house parties, Berkeley Police Chief Addison Fording contends that he cannot arrest anyone unless someone present files a complaint...