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Title: Venus: A Play by Suzan-Lori Parks ISBN: 1-55936-135-2 Publisher: Theatre Communications Group Pub. Date: September, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.8 (5 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Parks plays with stereotypes again.
Comment: So who was the Venus Hottentot, anyway? And what is this play about? Not an historical play (although it includes archival material), Parks gets to the stereotype of black female sexuality, while asking questions about our complicity in our own oppression. This allegorical work raises questions about the use of Baartman (the real "Venus Hottentot") as an icon for contemporary black female sexuality, among other things. If nothing else, this play may well have you looking up other information on Baartman.
Rating: 5
Summary: Rides roughshod over sexual boundaries
Comment: Venus's terrifyingly ambivalent character is gradually exposed throughout the course of this short yet explosive piece of experimental erotica. It would be all too easy to write this off as a drugsploitation piece, but a deeper truth is revealed by the powerful combinations of peyote and yage which the Doctor administers to his (initially) unwilling young patients, turning them into voracious, yet compliant, sexual zombies.
I found this book powerfully arousing - the Doctor is the very epitome of the fin-de-siecle cult leader, with a monstrous sexual appetite to match his towering charisma - and yet a surprising intellectual challenge. I recommend it to broad-minded adults everywhere.
Rating: 5
Summary: Well worth putting your hand in your pocket for - I did!
Comment: I must say that I thoroughly enjoyed reading this play. It took several attempts, as I frequently became 'overwhelmed' due to the stimulating nature of the material - and you know how it is after getting 'overwhelmed'...you just don't want to read on any more. Anyway, this is very high-class stuff indeed, and compares favourably (on a purely artistic level, of course) with such luminaries of the art as Georges Bataille and (particularly) Russ Meyer.
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Title: Topdog/Underdog by Suzan-Lori Parks ISBN: 1559362014 Publisher: Theatre Communications Group Pub. Date: 04 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The America Play: And Other Works by Suzan-Lori Parks ISBN: 1559360925 Publisher: Theatre Communications Group Pub. Date: December, 1995 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Getting Mother's Body : A Novel by SUZAN-LORI PARKS ISBN: 1400060222 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 06 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Red Letter Plays (Theatre Communications Group) by Suzan-Lori Parks, Nathaniel Scarlet Letter Hawthorne ISBN: 1559361956 Publisher: Theatre Communications Group Pub. Date: 01 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Fefu and Her Friends by Maria Irene Fornes ISBN: 155554052X Publisher: Performing Arts Journal Pubns Pub. Date: June, 1990 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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