Lila is meant to be a tragic figure, vulnerable to the predations of the world, but Jean Lichty gives her no more dimension or fluidity than a paper doll.Īccording to Inge, the piece belongs to Lila. Lila, who comes to live with the Bairds, is a fragile, emotionally unstable woman of the kind that so fascinated Inge and his sometime friend Tennessee Williams.īen Kahre’s Kenny blossoms into a creepy charmer in the presence of this older woman, and the excellent Deborah Hedwall’s kind, lonely Helen is grateful to have Lila for a confidante. At 21, he’s perfectly content to keep living at home, thanks to Oedipal yearnings that Helen fends off with vigilance.Įnter Lila Green, an out-of-work actress who was Kenny’s baby sitter when he was small. Kenny Baird - the Beatty role on Broadway - has had his mother, Helen, pretty much to himself since the death of his father years ago. ![]() That Freud has gone out of fashion in recent decades doesn’t help. ![]() Set in Depression-era Kansas, it is recognizably an Inge drama, and it’s interesting for that reason.
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