Word: luxurioso
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Dates: during 1993-1993
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...play is full of comic character types, allowing the cast to show considerable talent and style. Jenny Davidson really rings the audience's bell, snorting her way through the production as the hobbling, grunting Luxurioso. In her monologue climbing the stairs at the end of scene 13, she transcends mere stereotype to take command of the whole theatre: the audience is rapt...
...showing a society ruin itself through its own appetite for destruction. Had he tried to portray that moral void in a straightforward manner, Ross would have failed. The bloodthirstiness of the story is too much for the modern audience. Instead, somewhere in the final scene--with the chandelier spinning, Luxurioso gorging himself on peas and dancers in surgical robes gyrating to the tune of "Supermodel"--Ross's grisly humor gels to express perfectly that spiritual vacuum...
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