Floating Rhoda and the Glue Man
About this book
In Eve Ensler's "Floating Rhoda And The Glue Man" time and space are playfully elastic. As Rhoda and her lover, Barn, attempt to make contact in this tender and funny love story, they frequently float away from their "stand-in" selves and watch their own scenes with bemused detachment, or freeze their stand-ins for a moment while they speculatively play out a fantasy encounter. A comedy of sexual manners—hetero, homo, and bi—a satire on the gender wars in '90s America, where everybody wants to claim victim status, "Floating Rhoda" celebrates lovers, and the messy, earthbound struggle that is loving.~ intro by Liz Diamond from "Women Playwrights: The Best Plays of 1993" edt. Marisa SmithIn my late 30's I fell in love with a gentle man. To my surprise, I realized then that for all my supposed liberation and openness, I was essentially terrified of a kind, available man. I was terrified of being seen, terrified of being touched. His tenderness ripped open big aching wounds and desires.It is very late in the 20th century. We are caught, women and men, in this wild zone of gender mystification. Each of us longing, (sometimes secretly, sometimes unconsciously) to break out of one sexual assumption or another. Each of us desperately wanting to connect, to discover what we're really feeling, and then, to go beyond fear."Floating Rhoda And The Glue Man" demands that we unlock our private and limited notions of sexual identity and love. That we embrace a world where women rediscover their softness by kissing another woman's lips, where men refuse to participate in violence because they crave connection. Where each of us speaks what is there raging beneath the mask and loneliness, so that we are able finally to be still with one another, and not float away.~ Eve Ensler, Author's Note