Word: stas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DUSA, FISH, Stas, and Vi focuses on four women struggling against a male-dominated society. All at low points in their lives, they band together for mutual support in Fish's apartment, a refuge from the storm. And the source of the storm in this play is always...
Fish's man dumps her, calls back, then dumps her again. A man steals Dusa's children. Men prostitute Stas, rape Vi, and generally cause depression, despair and death...
While the utter villainy of men in Dusa, Fish, Stas, and Vi is just a tad unrealistic, British playwright Pam Gems seems to be taking male depravity to an extreme in order to test out the weaknesses and strengths of her four female characters. This exaggerration causes us to question their actions. If men are so bad, why do these women permit men to treat them this way? Why do they keep coming back for more...
...with subtle wit by Adriane Stewart, holds tight to her sense of humor even though she's just had an abortion and, the dialogue implies, been raped. She all but steals the show as she mopes around the stage interjecting sarcastic comments under her breath. Lyra O. Barrera's Stas--a whore bent on hustling her way to a Hawaiian medical school--prances around in her underwear reading Scientific American out loud and advising Dusa and Fish to toughen...
They loved it. They loved it all in Yerevan. On the last night of the festival, when the organizers slipped him the word to pack it up, Stas Namin said into the microphone: "Are you tired...