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...want to. I think it's really always going to remain like that. There's no way he's going to ever really fit in. I don't think my works are as hard to follow as his are, but I doubt, in spite of all the establishment window dressing, that people are ever going to take my books to heart...
...charms of the work, which opened off-Broadway last week. Playwright Donald Margulies, a 1992 Pulitzer Prize finalist for Sight Unseen, is, as usual, absolutely fearless in going for the offbeat. A long-dead aunt, for example, returns to life by climbing in a 10th-story window. The title refers to the wackiest moment, an imagined new scene for Death of a Salesman, which the precocious younger son envisions adapting as a perky Broadway musical. Arthur Miller, after all, came from the neighborhood, and the boy's parents seem crazier than Miller's Lomans. What better escape for both households...
Nancy, a West Coast attorney, remembered details of the incident only four months ago, after she began hypnotherapy sessions. Now, she recalls how one spring night in 1989 she awoke in a stupor to see a strange craft outside her window. She was taken into the vehicle and examined by a team of strange beings. A silver tube was inserted into her to extract an ovum. She breaks down as she describes the abduction. "People say 'How do you know?' You don't know. You're never sure what happened...
...heroine, star and director. The result is that what might have been art-house voyeurism becomes a wise sermon on the various motives for sex. Ada has sex with Stewart out of duty or pity. (The movie sees Stewart's pathos as well: as he watches lovers through a window, a dog licks his hand in a cruel parody of the affection he craves.) The sexual dance with Baines has more roiling complications. The first step is barter, the second is power, then rebellion, adventure, independence, joyful bondage, love, love in the face of death...
This is a closet drama, but the closet has a window with a view of the sea. In an early scene Ada comes to the beach and finds her piano in a crate. Opening it, she plays ecstatically; her daughter dances gaily, garlanded in seaweed; and Baines gets a first inkling of the lifeline that art is for Ada. The camera ascends to Campion's favorite bird's-eye view to reveal a huge sea horse magically sculpted from sand and shells. Life, this beautiful image suggests, is a pattern we cannot see, except through the artist's Olympian...