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...FACE WAS FAMILIAR. VIRGINIA SKEENS, A resident of a rural section of Wayne County, Michigan, watched as a man she had seen on the evening news unloaded his paraphernalia at the home of her neighbor Jack Miller, 53, a tree trimmer who suffered from terminal bone cancer. "I knew," she later told reporters, "somebody was going...
...stop moping over the Madonnas and lost villages of his parents' generation. Undaunted, he treks to Tijuana, watches illegal immigrants make the nighttime dash across the border, tours the old Spanish missions in California. At home in San Francisco he watches AIDS carve his friends to the bone. The epidemic brings northward a Latin preoccupation with death, but Rodriguez suspects that the greater cultural thrust is on the side of the U.S., "the more powerful broadcaster...
Leafing through the program for Skin and Bone before the show, I feared the worst. It promised everything I dread in a Harvard production. The play was set in "Italy or nowhere"; "William Shakespear" wrote the additional dialogue. Skin and Bone threatened 100 agonizing minutes of soul-destroying thespian pretense...
...from the moment the curtain was raised, it became clear that Skin and Bone is a production of style. The acting is terrific; the set flamboyant, and the direction, at times, visionary...
...cast and crew are entirely equal to the challenge of such an over-indulgent tale. They revel in the play. Modern productions of hardcore Elizabethan shlock tend to degenerate into a protracted joke at the expense of the crude plot. But Skin and Bone avoids this temptation. Rather than 100 minutes of dreary self-parody, the production flings itself into the play with gay abandon. Of course it still appears garish, over-the-top, even absurd; but it is not cast as simply worthless. The distinction may seem subtle, but it makes the difference between a snide exercise in self...