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...actors are a finely tuned collection of theatrical instruments, and, in his directorial debut, Actor Kevin Conway conducts the ensemble with symphonic finesse. He varies the tempos of wit, irony, lust, menace and shock deftly, and inter-culturally speaking, he certainly knows his oud from his oboe. -T.E. Kalem
Fatal Flowers, subtitled On Sin, Sex, and Suicide in the Deep South, is the author's attempt to describe the plight of such Southern womanhood by reporting how she grew up poor and frustrated in a region overripe with lust and repression: "What I had once seen as the condition of being female, I now saw as female and Southern. I perceived my mother, grandmothers, sister, daughters-and all the women whose roots I shared-as netted in one mutual silken bondage. Together, we were trapped in a morass of Spanish moss, Bible Belt guilt, and the pressures...
...feud between Oberon and Titania, the presiding deities. The explosive initial entrance of the lovers and Egeus, grunting and panting, or the encounter between Puck and one of Titania's fairies, each bristling, spitting and snarling like primates in some mating ritual--scenes like these present a quarrel-lust that grips like a disease and only passes after the transformational night in the forest...
...construction worker's yell at dawn. The faces stare back at me--a tired traffic cop; the bag lady, waking from a night's sleep in front of a burnt-out marquee; the sleazy bum waiting for Caesar's massage parlor to open its doors to all his lust. By the end of the summer I told time by these people. Their habits were so fixed that I knew I was late to work if the doors to Adam and Eve's sex palace were already open or if the bag lady had moved to another concrete hotel...
...issue which he never really resolves, but which provides an excellent vehicle for exploring his relationships to his father, friends and neighbors. All over the stage are huge physical manifestations of Francis's worst fears about himself, from his father's boorishness and classlessness to Bunny's flamboyant lust for his girlfriend's brother (on whom Francis also has a crush); from the obese, wheezing weirdness of Bunny's son, Herschel, to the uptight pettiness of the neighbor Lucille...