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OLYMPIA DUKAKIS After 14 years, back on B'way with one-woman show. Cousin Mike's musical? Tanks for the Memories...
Years before the Monty Python boys began flouncing about in frocks, Australia's Barry Humphries donned a dress as Edna Everage, Melbourne housewife. His "one-woman" London shows turned Edna into a British institution. In her hilarious Broadway debut, the self-dubbed dame sings a bit and muses about her family (Mum's in a "maximum-security twilight home"), but mostly she chats with the audience--or picks on it (though "caringly"). Humphries, a gloriously gaudy "megastar," has timing as sharp as a knife pleat...
...been staged around the world, most notably with an all-star cast in New York City last year, is now off-Broadway, being performed solo by its author. Shorn of the somewhat overbearing I-am-woman-hear-me-roar vibes of the celebrity-studded version, its strengths as a one-woman show become apparent. Sitting on a stool with only a few lighting effects for embellishment, Ensler can soar to Rabelaisian heights (giving a bravura impression of every type of orgiastic moan) or move us with quiet compassion (a woman in her 70s describes the embarrassing episode as a teenager...
Life missions seem to come as easily to Ensler as gag lines to Neil Simon. She has written a one-woman show about nuclear disarmament and another based on the stories of homeless women. Her play Necessary Targets, drawn from the accounts of Bosnian rape victims, was performed in January at Washington's Kennedy Center in front of Hillary Clinton. Next year she is planning to tour in a new piece, Points of Re-Entry, about the ways women mutilate their bodies to satisfy cultural norms, from Thai women who wear heavy metal braces to elongate their necks to American...
While you're ferreting out Boston's culture, consider "Abigail Adams: Remember the Ladies," a one-woman show. Boston Public Library, Roslindale Branch, 4238 Washington St. 323-2343. 2 p.m. FREE...