The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, August 27th, 2000
Clearly chaos: `The House of Blue Leaves' is absurd theater in top form
By DAMIEN JAQUES
Journal Sentinel theater critic
Sunday, August 27, 2000
It's no accident that Artie Shaughnessy, the central character in John Guare's 1971 absurdist comedy "The House of Blue Leaves," is a zookeeper by profession. He also keeps a zoo at his Queens, N.Y., apartment.
There is his wife, Bananas, who truly has gone bananas. She insists on begging for her food like a dog. She barks and howls, too.
There is his girlfriend, Bunny, who talks a mile a minute, will have sex at the snap of two fingers but won'...
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