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This is a typical scene from The Vietnamization of New Jersey, Christopher Durang’s political and cultural satire of American morals and hypocrisy. The plot hardly matters, but goes something like this: Davey comes home from the war to his New Jersey parents, brother, and housekeeper, surprising them by bringing along his blind Vietnamese wife, Liat. No sooner does the family adjust to her presence and Davey’s repudiation of America than it is revealed that Davey’s father has been unemployed for five months and the family’s belongings have been...
...with the smoke of vast bonfires, ablaze in surrounding fields and on hillsides. No, it's not a re-enactment of Dante's Inferno. It's Bonfire Night in the Sussex town of Lewes. Held every year on Nov. 5, Bonfire Night nominally commemorates the foiling of the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 - an attempt by English Catholics to blow up the upper house of Parliament and launch an uprising against King James I's Protestant rule. These days, however, it's simply an excuse (not just in Lewes, but also in less flamboyant displays throughout the country) for a boisterous...
Rogers is one of the architects of the current movement alive on Capitol Hill to publicly out all gay politicos whose work is perceived to hinder the progress of gay rights legislation. This phenomenon is a complicated but, I think, ultimately sinister plot that hinges on shame and guilt. The former is in relation to mainstream society, and the latter is in regards to other members of the minority group. Both raise questions that lie at the heart of all of what we know as our “identities.” The constantly shifting balance of powers renders...
...space of the theatre except taking down a wall. There is a minute-long shot of the empty theatre at the end of film, when the few members of the audience had filed out, with only the endless blue rows of seats. In the absence of dialogue, speech and plot, the physical space of the theatre emerges as a desolate presence...
...Plot Against America