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...hardcore, he’d be dead. Not only is his debut album titled Get Rich Or Die Tryin’, this former crack dealer (born Curtis Jackson) was shot nine times in 2000—once in the jaw and once in the hip, in front of his grandmother??s house, no less. As he sings on “Many Men (Wish Death),” “Many men / Many, many, many men / Wish death upon...
Orenstein locates the fairy tale’s earliest ancestor in a 17th-century oral folktale, “The Grandmother??s Tale,” and reproduces a version from the French countryside. Creepy and grotesque, the story is anything but a nursery rhyme. The wolf, waiting eagerly in bed, feeds the little girl (here, sans red riding hood) a jar of her grandmother??s blood and then coaxes her to perform a slow striptease. With each garment removed, he urges her, “Throw it on the fire, my child. You won?...
Some of Orenstein’s other forays, such as the chapter on the wolf’s cross-dressing, fare less well. This can perhaps be blamed on the good old academic microscope. Is the wolf’s donning of the grandmother??s clothes really rife with suggestions of the construction of gender roles—or are modern-day images of a pregnant wolf meant only to be funny? The humor factor is, strangely enough, something Orenstein never discusses. She seems to view all of the latter-day Riding Hoods as cultural...
...play is framed by Daniel’s narratives, as he “rides the waves” of his memories of his grandmother??s final days. Kastleman says her experimentation with memory and the “selective images” it creates is most apparent in the play’s set design. The umbrellas onstage that “serve to delineate an abstract, surreal and hopefully beautiful space,” are the most prominent feature of the “semi-abstracted?...
During a segment of her performance when she assumed the role of her old grandmother??a character she plays hunched over, with thick glasses and a heavy Chinese accent—she recalled a particular phrase that gave her confidence in her ethnic looks...