- OTHER MEDIA
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- review in the SF Bay Guardian October 12, 2005
- by Lara Shalson
- Douglas Eberwein has had it up to here. He's tired of government corruption,
the wars being waged in his name, and the general hypocrisy everywhere.
So he petitions to be legally divorced from the body politic, and in this
cautionary, be-careful-what-you-wish-for tale by Martha Soukup, Douglas
gets his wish. Now, it only takes a minute to imagine the problems that
such a move would create: the rights and privileges that would disappear,
the cruelties one would open oneself up to by becoming nonhuman. And it
only takes a second more to notice that abdicating responsibility toward
the world, including toward your own family and friends, might actually
make you more similar to the powerful forces you mean to reject. Indeed,
Douglas isn't terribly likable: He's stubborn, self-centered, and a terrible
boss to the only person who remains loyal to him. Still, Douglas's journey
is filled with some surprising and funny twists along the way to its inevitable
conclusion, and strong performances by the entire Cassandra's Call Productions
team make the most of this modern-day fairy tale. (Shalson)
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