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What a Lulu at the Yale Rep

by Allan Appel | April 8, 2007 12:16 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Why, when in the middle of an hysterically funny orgy scene at the opening performance of the Yale Rep’s bravura Lulu, which turns into a food fight, with whipped cream being smeared over at least five semi-clad men and one desperately mascara-ed lesbian countess, who are all Lulu’s current, future, or ex-lovers, and most entirely ridiculous in their narcissistic idealizing of her …why, when she wipes the Redi-Whip out of her big,, brown eyes and turns to soliloquize to the audience, “This is the most beautiful moment of my life,” do we suddenly burst into the release of laughter or feel a deep belly ache of tragedy, and perhaps both simultaneously? For the answer, click here to read Allan Appel’s review of the show, and a report on the opening-night party.

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