Chicago: gazing at Venus.(Voyeurs de Venus )(Brief article)
American Theatre, April, 2006 by Estvanik, Nicole
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HOW DO YOU DEPICT EXPLOITATION ON STAGE without further exploiting your subject? In writing about Saartjie Baartman (coarsely known in her day as the "Hottentot Venus"), Lydia Diamond handled this paradox by making the paradox itself the backbone of her play: Protagonist Sara Washington is an anthropologist struggling to package Baartman's life for a mainstream audience.
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Originally a Steppenwolf Theatre Company commission, Voyeurs de Venus premieres through April 15 at Chicago Dramatists, where Diamond has been a resident playwright. (Her Stick-Fly also premieres in ...
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