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...into shadow. And, in sharp contrast to usual Hollywood practice, nobody looks like a model; the women wear no make-up, the men are paunchy and badly shaven. The film also benefits from some finely drawn minor characters. Louisa Musgrove, her brother Charles, and Admiral and Mrs. Croft (Fiona Shaw) are all sympathetically portrayed...
Within this framework, Shaw creates other innovations of form. She has a heated argument with a lover in which she plays both parts. She makes no distinction between her and her lover. The dialogue fuses into an exhilarating burst of angry words, as if to say that an argument between lovers intertwined is an argument between indistinguishable parts of the same whole...
...Shaw is a formidable and charismatic figure on stage, introducing herself by wrapping her breasts and hands like a boxer preparing for a fight. She filters her identity as a butch lesbian through images of a military man and a male gigolo...
...political message, Shaw does not merely express it, she embodies it. Apart from the standard queer affirmation of homosexuality as natural (a theme of many gay and lesbian plays), Shaw confronts the political stigma of the bull dyke within the lesbian community...
...current rhetoric often discourages lesbians from identifying with male images, Shaw points out that she is not the only one to have encountered strong male influences. She says, "Like most lesbians, I really admired my father." Shaw points out that beyond the political debates are individual lesbians who resent being ostracized for having identified with...