I think maybe the young bald creature in the “ballet” might be supposed to represent Laury. They’re both female, and the “ballet” creature in her underwear had dark tones to her skin which, in the play, told me that we the audience were supposed to have been reading Laury within the context of the African-American female in the Old West. Before that, I hadn’t realized that Laury was supposed to reflect something about “race in America” in some kinda essay-ish way.
Also, I didn’t think Laury gave Jud a bl*w-job in the black-out. I thought, from the sounds, that he had kissed her very mushily and then he had unbuckled his pants and she’d pushed him away and then the lights came up.
For those of you who think Laury went down on Jud...well, if she wanted to go down on him so much, then shouldn’t she have tried to save him from being murdered at the end? Or is she just sort of serial man-hater and can we expect her to go down on Curly in the sequel, post-wedding, and then engineer his death later on too...?
And, though there was an intense homosocial energy between Curly and Jud in the earlier black-out-scene, I think it was definitely homosocial rather than homosexual. |
