BUGgin' out.
Ted Hoover, you insightful bastard! I was reading the City Paper's review of BUG, and Teddy makes an interesting observation.
"...my epiphany, occurring near the end of the first act, pulled me from the rest of the play. I suddenly realized that in the annals of barebones' very respectable production history, it's done only plays in which a woman is brutalized. I ran through the list: The Grey Zone, Frozen, The Glory of Living, This Is Our Youth and Bash. All these plays weren't only about brutalized women -- though most were -- but all featured a woman being brutalized." Hoover suggests, "Patrick, call your mother and apologize. Right now!"
After reading this review a few days earlier, I was having tea with my friend Jay, and he gave me further insight. When Patrick was young, he lived in the same neighborhood as Jay's family. Bev (his wife) would never let the girls play with Patrick. He was a very large boy; an awful bully. Jay began to dislike him when he started terrorizing and batting around one of his daughters. The thing about Patrick's bullying days is that he would never beat up little boys - only girls.
In Jay's words, "He does look like a hitter."
"...my epiphany, occurring near the end of the first act, pulled me from the rest of the play. I suddenly realized that in the annals of barebones' very respectable production history, it's done only plays in which a woman is brutalized. I ran through the list: The Grey Zone, Frozen, The Glory of Living, This Is Our Youth and Bash. All these plays weren't only about brutalized women -- though most were -- but all featured a woman being brutalized." Hoover suggests, "Patrick, call your mother and apologize. Right now!"
After reading this review a few days earlier, I was having tea with my friend Jay, and he gave me further insight. When Patrick was young, he lived in the same neighborhood as Jay's family. Bev (his wife) would never let the girls play with Patrick. He was a very large boy; an awful bully. Jay began to dislike him when he started terrorizing and batting around one of his daughters. The thing about Patrick's bullying days is that he would never beat up little boys - only girls.
In Jay's words, "He does look like a hitter."