Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June 2008 Men have this problem with women. They want us to be virgins, they want us to be whores, they want us to be mothers. So they have created the impossible ideal of the Virgin Mother, which generations of women have been punished for…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June, 2007 I have to confess that, having not done my customary research on Love! Valour! Compassion! before attending the performance, I was not prepared for three and a half hours of naked men. I say that right off the bat in order to prepare you, because…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 2006 I saw a wonderful new play yesterday called Hamlet. That is how I felt, anyway. Eleanor Holdridge’s staging of Shakespeare’s masterpiece made me feel as if I was seeing the play for the first time. As if it were some new work built out…
by Gail M. Burns, July 2005. “Boston marriage” was a term used in the nineteenth-century to describe romantic friendships between women that included long-term cohabitation. These were not necessarily sexual relationships, nor were they considered immoral or perverted. Marriage was a very different institution then than it is now. Women…
