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Trading has been brisk in Boris Yeltsin futures at the Russian stock market in downtown Moscow. Every day at 4:36 p.m., youthful brokers with code names like "Father," "Moon" and "Winter" buy and sell contracts pegged to whatever percentage of the vote they believe the Russian President will receive on election day. Since item Ye-1606-V began trading April 22, Yeltsin's projected total, registered in flashing orange lights on a big digital board, has jumped 10 points, to around 28.50--about equal to the quote for the Communist candidate, Gennadi Zyuganov. These speculators may care more about...
...season just drawing to a close was hardly encouraging. Musicals like Rent and Bring in 'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk generated most of the excitement. The few straight plays that succeeded at the box office typically boasted either a big star name--Carol Burnett in the lame farce Moon over Buffalo--or a flamboyant star turn--Zoe Caldwell as rampaging diva Maria Callas in Terrence McNally's Master Class...
...visits a mother, Dora, and daughter, Susannah, to deliver a message about their father, the amiably named Ray. The mystery of the stranger and the contents of the letter, however, gradually give rise to a series of colorfully existentialist and epistemological revelations, odd cultic rituals involving trousers and the moon, and a great deal of hemming and hawing over both. One could describe the plot--basically, Ray is actually a duplicate husband, mildly deviant, that William Hard must replace--but it is in essence less interesting, for all its gratuitous weirdness, than the atmosphere it engenders. In the play, Hard...
...pregnant with meaning (the plain soil of a garden; the sexually suggestive rope of a swing) to the rather obtrusive lighting (a programmed sequence of flashes as Dora polishes a plate). The sun seems to rise and set in the same place, or never to set; a moon figures prominently as well. Singing crops up now and again unexpectedly. Sound effects--a car starting, space-aged boings--provide a sort of EKG for the consciousness of the characters...
...because they're pretty sure that whatever women want, or will want in November, it doesn't rhyme with "coal." On both sides, men are rubbing their eyes and seeing Woman once again as inscrutable Other--bred in primordial tidal pools and probably subject to the phases of the moon...