Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Feb 21, 2001
Closed Mar 10, 2001
Opened Feb 21, 2001
Closed Mar 10, 2001
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With the pharmaceutical revolution of the late 1990s as its background, Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom tells the funny and touching story of a disabled writer of gay, Marxist pornography, his closest friends, and their quests for love, fulfillment and a spicy story that sells. Dave Mowers directs this new comedy by David Zellnik.
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Steven McElroy's eyes burn with a manic glee as he rips into the opening monologue of playwright David Zellnik's Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom. McElroy portrays Puppy, a disabled writer of gay, Marxist pornography. He's reading excerpts from his latest work, "Plutonium Rod," to the audience. The purple prose includes references to "glow in the dark" sperm and an orgasm with the force of "an explosion that rivaled the unjustified American bombing of Hiroshima."
This humorous approach to sex and politics is found throughout Zellnik's play. Set in late 1996 and early 1997, Flowers is a new variation on the AIDS play genre, examining life with AIDS in the age of protease inhibitors. Althoug[...]