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...should have felt right at home. After all, Boston's the home of the Sweeney brothers, the Sullivan clan, even the Kennedy empire...
...sense of how men and women lived in early American society, or on its margins. The Pioneers describes the growing pains of a frontier town in upstate New York in the 1790s, in which religious sects jockey for advantage and the law turns bully. The Prairie depicts a pioneer clan named Bush, whose family values include squatting and kidnapping. The new nation may have been led by paragons like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson; Cooper's characters were the nation they led. It is our first group self-portrait, and not an altogether flattering one. The man whose knack...
...begins with the pseudo-disclaimer voice-over "This Latin family is not representative of all Latin families. It is a unique and individual case." Representative it may not be, but the Gigante clan, portrayed by Leguizamo in this "dysfunctional family comedy," is certainly biographical -- enough so that the author expects to offend his father and tread on painful memories of other relatives, despite having already heeded pleas to change names and incidents to protect the guilty but hypersensitive...
...Crazy Willie to their ditsy mother Gladyz, a rare drag part shaped with candor rather than cant. He also depicts a surgically handicapped brother who has been shunted away to an institution; a bleach-blond brother in deep denial about everything from his origins to his sexuality; and the clan patriarch, feared by all the others as an epic bully but visible in the final sequence as just a hollow never-was clinging to what's left of his machismo...
...periphery the men debate a host of topics from current headlines. But in form and uproarious dialogue the play is a commercial comedy. On that level, Sisters is a delight and is exquisitely performed, especially by Kahn as the ditsiest, daffiest and ultimately most devious of this matriarchal clan...