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Valerie Weinstein's direction and Yvonne Roemer's choreography of this production are also only partially successful. The characters' movements, even in the segments involving no dancing, are highly stylized--Medea waves her arms in ostentatious anger and the chorus members clutch their stomachs when Medea mentions killing her children. This type of exaggerated, ritualistic movement is apparently in recognition of the classic origins of the play...
...other, with tireless voracity. In the second act, which is set in 1979 London, the frolics include an orgy in which Clive's daughter Victoria (Cori Lynn Peterson) invokes Ishtar while romping with her gay brother Edward (now played by Brain van Gorder) and her lesbian lover Lynn (Vonnie Roemer...
...they go off stage to do it. Hey, at least they go offstage. That's not the case with Clive and Mrs. Saunders (Vonnie Roemer), a widow who enjoys flogging. Clive expresses passions for her that have no place in the patronizing domesticity of his marriage. She resists his advances at first, but to no avail. Undeterred, Clive sticks his head under her skirt and they have a jolly good time...
Meanwhile, Betty is fending off the advances of her children's governess Ellen (Vonnie Roemer), whom she eventually marries off to Bagley with advice that movingly highlights the Victorian woman's deprivation of sexual pleasure and knowledge. "Just keep still," she advises the bride to be, while knowing that even she is beginning to want more than that...
Victoria, played by a doll in the first act, is now played by Cori Lynn Peterson, who was her grandmother in the first act. David Travis, formerly Clive, is now the goofy, spoiled toddler Kathy, whose mother is Victoria's friend Lynn (Vonnie Roemer). Bryan van Gorder and Jennifer Sun have exchanged roles, so that both Edward and Betty are played by the right sex. In the latter's case, this may mean that son and mother have found their true selves: he is gay, and she has left Clive and found...