Lust and the Unicorn (1987)
Production
The hourlong adaptation by Osvaldo Rodriguez and Mark Waren of a play called ''Body Work'' by S. and S. Charnas, which in turn was based on a science-fiction novella, probes the relationship of two creatures who feed on others for their sustenance. The psychiatrist's first thought on having a vampire for a client is ''Maybe I can get an article out of it.''
The vampire, a haughty college teacher (David Phillips), is on the hunt for blood of the sort that flows through the veins of women who attend museum openings and shop on Fifth Avenue; the hard-boiled psychiatrist (Christiane McKenna) needs much more - affection, love, sex.
When she implies that the vampire, who has come to her for a bill of mental health required by his employer, may develop feelings of the heart as well as the stomach for his sources of nutrition, he is indignant: ''Would you mate with your livestock?''
He charges her with a prurient interest in him, and he's right. She feels an upsetting attraction: ''He moves me and he draws me and he keeps coming back.'' Each softens under the other's influence, and the issue finally is who will be the predator, who the prey.
"Stage: 'Lust and Unicorn'," Walter Goodman, The New York Times, February 9, 1987
The vampire, a haughty college teacher (David Phillips), is on the hunt for blood of the sort that flows through the veins of women who attend museum openings and shop on Fifth Avenue; the hard-boiled psychiatrist (Christiane McKenna) needs much more - affection, love, sex.
When she implies that the vampire, who has come to her for a bill of mental health required by his employer, may develop feelings of the heart as well as the stomach for his sources of nutrition, he is indignant: ''Would you mate with your livestock?''
He charges her with a prurient interest in him, and he's right. She feels an upsetting attraction: ''He moves me and he draws me and he keeps coming back.'' Each softens under the other's influence, and the issue finally is who will be the predator, who the prey.
"Stage: 'Lust and Unicorn'," Walter Goodman, The New York Times, February 9, 1987
February 5 – 15, 1987
English
PROD.1987.0018
Ozzie Rodriguez (director), Christiane McKenna (performer), David Phillips (performer), Brian Glover (performer), Joanna Schielke (lighting designer), Margo LaZaro (costumes), Paul Ginel (set design), Brian Glover (set design), Marcus Cerda (set design), Vita Giorgi (contributor), Susan Huffaker (tech), J. Arc And Company (producer)
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