Word: womanized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...these shortcomings, however, in the second play of the series, Tennessee Williams' Twenty-Seven Wagons Full of Cotton. Set against the changing social and economic conditions of the Deep South in the early twentieth century, Williams' play charts the harrowing sexual exploitation of Flora, an obese, simple-minded woman abused by both her husband and a wealthy neighbor. Dorothy Brodesser's deeply moving performance as Williams heroine alone is worth the price of admission. Constantly made up in her Sunday best, she haunts the sparsely dressed stage clutching her most expensive handbag and making small talk so joyfully that...
...Chekov's piece seems almost inconsiderate after the grueling emotional turmoil of Williams' piece. Director Aidan Parkinson takes a burlesque approach to Chekov's story of a marriage proposal interrupted by disputes over trivial family rivalries. Dorothy Brodesser returns in drag as the scowling father of Natalia, the woman whom Chekov's feeble hero Lomov wants to wed, and Barlow Anderson as Lomov reaches feats of physical hypochondria that defy description. Parkinson's production comes dangerously close to the line between farce and sheer Vaudeville at times. It evokes laughter from the audience, but it is more of the laughter...
Budnitz employs four women as narrators, all from different generations of the same family, who together grapple with the inconclusive questions of human existence. Ilana's narration greets, and scares, the reader first. Ilana is a woman of the old country, probably Russia, who somehow falls in love with a stranger and finds herself in an unnamed American city. Her journey comprises stories of rape and incest, murder and solicitation, placed in a mythical context of forests and magic. A "man in the forest laughing with little pointed teeth" violates her, yet gives her a Faberge egg. This egg becomes...
...gender is correct. We are raised, in this culture, with a very strong personal privacy taboo around the opposite sex, and a queer person fills that role. I can't imagine how it could have been productive when I was in college to force me to live with a woman who wasn't comfortable with the idea of disrobing in front of me or me changing in front of her. Fortunately, my roommate did not have a problem with my orientation (it was public), but if he had, I would not have wanted to live with...
...something like "Screw my nuts" or "Chicken Cow my ass," which occurred fairly regularly. This obscene element seemed to be the most attractive to most of the crowd, myself included. Near the end of the show, a small group of people walked by me on their way out. One woman wasn't ready to leave. "Don't you want to hear him scream more shit?" she said...