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GENEVA ENGLISH DRAMA SOCIETY22 February 2005 PLAYREADING - BURN THIS This drama centers on the personal crisis of Anna, a rising downtown dancer/choreographer, and the men in her life: a gay ad exec with whom she shares digs, a commercially successful screenwriter who is inlove with her, and above all the wild and unpredictable brother of the gay dancer who also shared her loft and who had been central to her creative life, but who has just been killed in a tragic boating accident. The wild brother, who has arrived in the middle of the night to collect his brother's things, seems the antithesis of his sensitive dead brother: coarse, insulting, truth-telling to a fault, above all dangerous. The trajectory of the play is the coming-together of the unlikely pair of the dancer and the wild man. On one level it's a standard romantic ending - choosing the free spirit over the solid but stolid suitor. On another, it's a lesson in Wilsonian pessimism: emotional need will overwhelm rational considerations; sensibility will always conquer sense. |