Word: lovelies
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Serge and Nicole's incest in itself isn't the main theme. It's just an ironic twist that the only people who have a fulfilling love must break the most rigid taboo of society to share it. When Serge shouts through tears, "Poppa, I love you, even though no one's ever told you that because it's the kind of thing you don't shout!" we are closer to the real heart of the play...
...with them they will be saved from their miserable lives. The two old aunts, who must sleep in the same bed even though they hate each other, add their pleas to the chorus. Jealousy, lust, hatred, infidelity, frustration--all swirl around Serge as he tries to reconcile his incestuous love with his obligation to his sick father...
Bonjour La, Bonjour leaves you to ponder Tremblay's attitude towards incest. It may not be right, he suggests, but incestuous love beats normal emptiness. Consider this challenge to the most ingrained prohibition in society, then consider that Eliot House is showing this play for free. There's nothing to lose but your prejudice...
...While Moriarty ponders that, with the aid of two alternately humorous and sadistic thugs, Nolte and Weld are running for their lives, down to Los Angeles and finally out into the desert to an abandoned hippy enclave where Nolte once lived. But the summer of love died long ago, infiltrated by COINTELPRO and laughed to death on Johnny Carson. In the end Nolte is dead too, and Moriarty and Weld are driving back out across the desert back to bourgeois, empty lives in Berkeley. The long night settles...
...actually see Birdy fly. We believe that he speaks canary language, that he understands the birds' system of time, that he knows what it is like to soar higher than the trees and that Perta, the yellow canary with the green eyebrows, can inspire Birdy to love and wet dreams. We believe he is a bird...