Comedy / Casting: 4m, 3f w/doubling / Scenery: 2 exteriors
The time-shifting comedy by the author of Top Girls created a
sensation Off-Broadway directed by Tommy Tune. Here we are in 1880
darkest but British Africa as portrayed in old movies, plays and
novels. Only with a difference. Both parody and spoof of the
Victorian Empire and its rigid attitudes especially towards sex.
There is Clive, a British functionary, his wife Betty (played by a
man), their daughter Victoria (a rag doll), Clive's friend Harry an
explorer, Mrs. Saunders who runs about dressed in a riding habit,
Clive's son Edward who still plays with dolls and is played by a
woman and Joshua a native servant who knows exactly what is really
going on. What really is going on is a marvelous send up and a
non-stop round robin of sexual liaisons. All this time the natives
are restless in the background. The second act shifts to London in
1980 except for the surviving characters it is only twenty five
years later and all those repressed sexual longings have evaporated
along with the Empire.
"Intelligent, inventive and funny."-The New York Times
"I really don't know when I've had more fun. It blends farce,
pathos into a work of total theatre."-New York Daily News
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