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That is exactly what Don DeLillo envisions in his vivid 1988 novel, Libra, which has been adapted and staged by John Malkovich for Chicago's Steppenwolf troupe. Oswald is variously buffeted by communists who hate Kennedy, CIA renegades bent on a better Bay of Pigs invasion and Mafia overlords whose motives are as shadowy as their methods. As history, the explanations are no more satisfying than any others. As literature, the portrait of Oswald's strange world -- especially his bizarre mother -- is richer, spookier and eerily funnier than anything else on the subject...
This dark humor translates to the stage much more effectively than the political narrative, which Malkovich renders murkier, overstressing the mysterious deaths of minor figures a dozen or more years after they could have spilled the beans. He relies heavily on video footage, words projected onto screens, rows of chairs suggesting a government hearing, booming sounds and other techniques reminiscent of the Wooster Group. At the center are four beguiling caricatures, three of men whose alleged homosexuality is linked to misdeeds...
Supporting Actor: John Malkovich...
...John Malkovich, "In the Line of Fire"--Too many disguises. Not enough John...
...John Malkovich, because he's handsome and agreat actor, and has a smart wife of his own agegroup instead of some little floozy...