Word: druidical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Coast and Okefenokee interior seemingly smushed into one town--where the natives are bathed in swamp sweat, among other unguents. Dreamboat high school guidance counselor Matt Dillon is accused of rape by a student, rich-bitch Denise Richards. Did he do it? And did he also do Campbell, a Druidic outcast with nary a kind word for Richards? That is the mystery facing detective Kevin Bacon, who has his own baroque agenda. Fair play forbids further disclosure of the labyrinthine connivery on display or of the detective's dirty secrets. Let's just say he has enough kinks to inspire...
...just, Carpenter has a singularly unwieldy stage to work with. It seems appealing enough at the start of the play, with its mottled sky, its rich backdrops and proliferation of Druidic carvings, but the self-conscious surrealism begins to pall before long. In addition, the props are all concentrated at the back and sides of the stage, leaving an expanse of unrelieved, barren floor space in the middle...
...time trees were sacred. Gods inhabited them and took their forms. Trees were druidic. They rose out of the earth, gesticulating, tossing their hair. They were the tenderest life-form: cooling, sheltering, calming, enigmatic. Or else they might harbor terrors: beasts and devils in the dark forest. They were, in either case, magic. Still are, of course, although they have also evolved into mere lumber...