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...there is an element of doubt." Indeed, the play's pivotal question is the true nature of her role, the smallest of the three but the engine of the plot. Says Mosher: "The audience is meant to go out asking one another: Is she an angel? Is she a whore...
What is left, "Unspoiled Monsters" and "Kate McCloud," is shaped by the hard-boiled voice of the narrator, a bisexual prostitute named P.B. Jones who describes himself as a Hershey Bar whore ("there wasn't much I wouldn't do for a nickel's worth of chocolate"). Starting out in a St. Louis orphanage, Jones works his way up, first as a masseur in Miami, then as a would-be writer who massages the egos of the rich and famous in New York and Europe. There is a fetal plot that would have developed into a romantically justified kidnaping...
...ordered the entire Executive Branch not to speak to anyone from the magazine. That ban collapsed within eight hours: Attorney General Robert Kennedy took my call and talked my ear off. When he was President, Lyndon Johnson stalked me around a table roaring, "You're nothing but a whore for the Republican Party!" I'm sorry I could not get him to compare notes with Nixon. I hope one of them is wrong...
...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...
...coterie include the disturbed Cider (played with scenerychewing gusto by David Buttaro), who carries a book of Nietzsche in one hand and a bottle in the other; Isaiah (Jason Cogan), who is a first year Harvard Law student and big-brother figure to Jonny; Mare (Jennifer Hodges), a tough whore; and Strawberry (Lena Strayhorn), a flirtatious ditz...