On a level, Micaela Jade Tucker’s one-woman play is an advocacy piece about taking care of a woman’s body, with all its tendencies to pick up judgement, viruses and other things. It’s about broken condoms, reeling ideas in and taking responsibility for who you think you are in the world.
Pillowman darkly brings together very difficult moral values. Without a clear sense of political context, the work is like a conventional police whodunnit with a good cop/bad cop motif. It’s also like an expose of a dictatorial regime. And finally it confronts Jewish and Chinese identity, mental disability and murder.
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THE FIRST TIME you read this book, instinctively, you know you must be very careful. To cite Julian Schnabel’s film Basquiat: you might be looking at Van Gogh’s ear. This is the kind of metaphor that Lynn Joffe’s debut novel, The Gospel According to Wanda B. Lazarus presents. […]
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