www.justiceforchandra.com

[benn]

[gozgals]

Morning Benn,

How are you. Your last comment would be most helpful to me when composing my letter! (the one to Kate, about finding your comments)

Have a great day.



Benn you may send me to my mail a sample of what you have written too in the past so I can get an idea if you want........that might be helpful too.

Goz.

[jane]

Just posting a review of a performance of the play, Aphrodisiac, here:

fair use
from
Rocky Mountain News

D.C. scandal provides plenty to ponder

By Lisa Bornstein, Rocky Mountain News

January 19, 2007

For a subject so endlessly chewed and digested, it's amazing that Rob Handel has found
new food for thought with his play Aphrodisiac. But in a production directed with
intelligence and nuance by Bonnie Metzgar at Curious Theatre Company, Handel delves
into Washington sex scandals and if he doesn't give us a strong resolution or even an
overarching purpose, the playwright delivers plenty to consider.

He's not shy about his inspiration, the cause celebre of California Congressman
Gary Condit and his clandestine lover, Chandra Levy, who disappeared in the summer of
2001 and was later found murdered.

Handel's play revolves not around Condit and Levy (in the play called Dan Ferris and
Ilona Waxman), but around the congressman's adult children, Avery (Josh Robinson) and
Alma (Jessica Robblee), who have been gobsmacked by the scandal. Trying to find
the truth, or a truth, they role-play in public, re-enacting what they imagined
transpired between their father and his lover.

In just a three-person play, the acting is wholly impressive. Robblee and Robinson,
playing siblings a decade apart, come across like family that doesn't know itself very well.
In their play-acting, they play not only Dan and Ilona, but Avery and Alma's
perception of the two. Thus, Ilona becomes airy and childlike, while Dan takes on a
deep voice and commanding presence. As themselves, Robblee portrays a smart
girl who seemingly ages physically during the play as she confronts the Freudian
horrors of a father sleeping with women her age.

Robinson tries to remain objective and removed, presumably what he sees as male,
but directs his own anger toward their starched, political mother.

The third performance enters in the play's final moments, a deus ex Monica played
by Mare Trevathan with an intelligence and sophistication the public has seldom
allowed Lewinsky. She brings forth the title of the play, the sway held over willing
young women by men of power, and their indulgence of that power. She describes her
experiences with Bill Clinton with a squirm-inducing, sordid-natured
eroticism.

Most movingly, she points out that these young women did not run for office or
choose celebrity.

"Do you know what I do all day?" Lewinsky says in the play. "I practice looking
people in the eye."

bornsteinl@RockyMountainNews.com or 303-954-5101
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/on_stage/article/0,1299,DRMN_53_5288590,00.html
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