From Three Weeks (Edinburgh), 14-20 Aug 00
I Might be Edgar Allan Poe
Collective Unconscious, Venue 81, p.81
until Mon 30 (not Mon 16,23), 14.05
Cast Forrest Gump in 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.' Add some Hannibal Lector and you're getting there. Sort of.
Joe suckles the end of his intravenous drip and calmly tells the audience he's the reincarnation of America's macabre maestro. Not convinced? Madman or master... after this compulsive monologue you may not be so sure.
**** [nd]