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...disintegration of her daughter's marriage. Boo's parents Soot (Randi Wolkenbreit) and Karl (Philip Munger) are not exactly paragons of familial support. And in Marriage, as in other Durang works, the Catholic Church assumes a patriarchal role. Like the other parent figures in the play, the parish priest, Father Donnally (Tom Chick), cannot give them constructive advice...
...Woman assume new personas in the second and more interesting of the two plays, A Theological Position. The work opens in media res, after Man has brought the pregnant Woman to Priest (Richard Claflin). Apparently, Man is questioning the puzzling genesis of their unborn child. He wants help and advice from the Priest--some allusion is made to the possible demonism of Woman, but we do not discover the details until later. Playwright Coover's attitude toward the church is clear as the Priest voices his self-righteous rigidity. He says of the pregnancy, "Even if it should occur...
...ensuing events, the Priest attempts to play voyeur, suggesting that watching the couple copulate will legitimate the pregnancy in the eyes of the Church. Man turns the tables, however, when he suggests that the priest perform the sexual rite. Since the priest "only wishes to help," he has sex with the Woman, affirming that "[i]t is entirely legal." Even the act of sex is cast in his narrow-minded yet perverse religiosity. "To make of that She a knowable her, but at the same time transubstantiate the self...I've got the sweet taste of trinities in my mouth...
...wife's vagina talks. He has tricked the priest into copulation so that he too might experience the phenomenon of Woman's biting vagina. Man hopes the Priest will advise him, despite the Priest's initial anger at being duped. The two men bond as enemies of the otherness represented by the voice of a feminist vagina. Selvaratnam looks sufficiently loathsome as she writhes about the pool table, her "talking" vagina chasing the Priest...
JUDGMENT (HBO, Oct. 17, 21, 25). A kindly parish priest turns out to be a child molester in this provocative if predictable cable movie written and directed by Tom Topor (The Accused...