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...surviving Greek heroes from the 10-year siege and ultimate destruction of Troy--the subject matter of the Iliad--have long since returned to their homes except Odysseus, the King of Ithaca. There, 10 years after the fall of Troy, his faithful wife Penelope fends off a riotous band of suitors for her hand in marriage; his son Telemachus, an infant when his father went off to war, cannot repel the suitors or claim the throne without sure knowledge that Odysseus will never return. Where in the world...
David Gordon, however, was a far more complicated case. His daughter's recounting, The Shadow Man (Random House; 274 pages; $24), is well titled; Gordon's shadow was profoundly deceptive. The intellectual who talked of riotous years at Harvard in fact never finished high school. The erudite essayist who had written for the Nation and the Jesuit magazine America was also a literary name dropper and vituperative anti-Semite. The right-wing pamphleteer apparently did write speeches for Senator Joe McCarthy, as he claimed, but the speeches may never have been used. The jaunty, confident head of the family most...
...were disgusted by the play when it was first produced nearly a century ago. A few Boston theater-goers may have been revolted by "Ubu Rock" (every once in a while, little old ladies walk out of the show), but most found the show's music, acting and writing riotous-in the best sense of the word...
Francine Torres, on the other hand, perfectly plays the maid Dorine as a cross between Roseanne and Carol Burnett. Her lengthy scene with Orgon (the always amazing Thomas Derrah), in which she tries to stop him from forcing his daughter Marianne (Jessalyn Gilsig) to marry Tartuffe (Alvin Epstein), is riotous. She can make vacuuming funny...
...confronts Eddie--in middle of the street and in her nightgown, no less--saying, "I saw you--at the corner of Fourth and Union," her philandering husband says only, "The wasn't me! Baby, I don't know who you saw...but it wasn't me!" Thus begins a riotous comedy that takes a sharp look at modern relationships and the role that both men and women take in them...