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...time been clearly laid out: Sex and love, home and banishment and living with--or escaping from--one's past. The second act enlarges on those themes, bringing the players into a new setting--the Cozy Nest, a gay bar opened by Chief Yang--and introduces a new character, Papa Fu (Carsey Yee), an elderly philanthropist with dubious motives. The revelations which Papa Fu will unfold to Hawk prove to be the symbolic heart of the play...
...PAPA'S BRAND...
David (played from youth successively, and quite engagingly, by Alex Rafalowicz, Noah Taylor and Geoffrey Rush) might have been a sweet-souled musical prodigy. But he had a brutal stage father (Armin Mueller-Stahl), a Jewish communist who was also a chronic German patriarch. "Music is your friend," says Papa in his Fuhrer-knows-best tone. "Everything else will let you down." David also has the classical pianist's romantic soul: part Liszt, part Liberace. Just as he embraces fame, he collapses into his mind's awful abyss...
...really in charge was Yeltsin's daughter Tatiana Dyachenko, 36, a computer engineer with no previous political experience. While those in the campaign's upper reaches have always known that Dyachenko was the key cog in the apparatus--if only because she alone saw the man she routinely calls "Papa" on a daily basis--her role has been widely misunderstood. After dodging the media for months, Dyachenko last week described her job to the Russian press: "I'm kind of involved in everything. I'm everywhere--everywhere there's a weak link...
...Hush little baby, don't say a word, Papa's gonna buy you a mockingbird. And if that mockingbird don't sing, Papa's gonna buy you...Oh, I don't know...Europe?" --Bill Gates' lullaby to his new daughter, as imagined by Advertising Age columnist Bob Garfield, in USA Today...