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Mugezi's uncanny omniscience takes some getting used to, but the effort is worth making. Isegawa's method of portraying a broad swath of national history through the wise eyes of a young observer has its precedent in such reality-bending epics as Gunter Grass's The Tin Drum and Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children. Mugezi and all the members of his extended family play out, in microcosm, the upheavals of postcolonial Africa: the diaspora from stable rural societies into hectic cities governed by money rather than loyalties. Mugezi learns that he must be devious and tough simply...
...idiom, as they become one and the same, written in the equivalent language. No doubt Schulze is a master craftsman, but his few missteps in this new volume lead one to hold back unabashed praise. We shall wait to see if he indeed becomes the "new epic storyteller" that Gunter Grass has pegged him to be. Until that main course, wet your palate on Simple Stories...
Just before the halfway point in Charles L. Mee's play Full Circle, East Berlin police officer Herman (John Douglas Thompson), standing 20 feet in the air on a thin rope bridge, frantically asks fellow guard Gunter (Boni B. Alvarez) if they can "have an intermission." After Gunter suggests that he get to the other side of the rope bridge first, Herman cries out that he has to go to the men's room "right now," and drops his trousers. How does Gunter stop this crisis? Only a rendition of "YMCA" will get the petrified Herman in motion...
...Shultz), a New York socialite on tour in East Berlin who is endlessly excited by the revolution around her. Pamela quickly hires a young rioter, Dulle Griet (Mirjana Jokovic), as an au pair for the child, but the two soon find themselves on the run from officers Herman and Gunter...
...Most of the play's scenes happen within the context of Pamela and Dulle Griet's flight through Berlin, punctuated by the comic appearances of Herman and Gunter. The sets bounce wildly between a small theater, the columns of a museum, the streets of riot-torn Berlin, a fancy French hotel and a suburban Berlin hovel; the tone of the play changes just as wildly, such as when Dulle Griet gives a heart-felt monologue about what she imagines her "happy life" will be like, punctuated by Pamela's chirpy "Well, you're certainly the strangest girl I've ever...