Word: plot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...problem by filling the novel with interesting anecdotes, digressions and ironic twists. The reader might occasionally wish that one of the women would have to answer call waiting or otherwise break the tedium, but these moments are rare. For the most part, the reader remains riveted despite the tenuous plot...
Meanwhile, Dr. Prentice frantically struggles to unwind this mess. The plot thickens when Nicholas Beckett (Mark Mindich), the matter-of-fact porter from the Chamber Hotel, arrives and returns Mrs. Prentice's "newly cleaned" garments--the forgotten extras from a night of her own promiscuity. Mrs. Prentice is so over-sexed that her husband predicts, "she'll go to the grave in a Y-shaped coffin...
Fletcher has created a sparse setting for his music--he sketches an initial situation rather presenting a comprehensive plot. A white Southern father, Lawrence Errols (Charlie Cardillo), disowns his son for marrying a Black woman, Elizabeth (Alexis Toomer). Twenty years later Lawrence, in ill health, invites his mixed-race grandson, Cedric (Ted Collins), to the family seat, Egania. We join the Errols as they arrive in the South and grandfather and grandson learn to appreciate and forgive each other...
...potentially charged plot evolves into a study of personal atonement and reconciliation, and Fletcher effectively side-steps any more controversial racial commentary. Although this play purports to deal with racism, there are only a few instances of racial inequity in the plot. When racial issues are discussed, it is mainly through allusion and not direct depiction. For example, when the Black and White church choruses interchange lines in the very effective opening and closing scenes, the White chorus' line, "Love those who cheat you," is offset by the Black chorus' "Love those who beat you," in an interplay that evokes...
...find that the musical that opened on Broadway last week is a cracking good show. It blends a love story and a spectacle with tragic social commentary about what the West symbolizes to the Third World, which is not peace and freedom so much as money and security. The plot is the sad, simple story of a soldier and a peasant woman, flung together and pulled apart by twists of fate. The stage mechanics feature that famous (or infamous) last helicopter taking off from the U.S. embassy in 1975, leaving loyal Vietnamese servants behind, and a panoply of Saigon clubs...