3/28/2023 0 Comments Susannah flood fulfillment![]() ![]() Work, home, and his love life all start to spin. ![]() But it’s really a larger symptom of Michael losing control. ![]() A battle of wills ensues between Ted and Michael over the apartment noise which escalates to extreme proportions. But as he spends more time in his new fancy apartment, he discovers his upstairs neighbor Ted (Jeff Biehl) and Ted’s young daughter make a tremendous amount of noise””like a herd of elephants tap-dancing on a tin roof.Īnd so begins the comedy of tantrums, taunting, and intemperance. Michael throws himself into 12-step recovery with Sarah’s help. When Michael confronts his boss (Peter McCabe) about this this he’s informed it’s his alcoholism that’s the problem. She chalks up his lack of promotion to racism at their law firm. He hooks up with his co-worker Sarah (Susannah Flood) who has a penchant for spanking and a zen-like calm about just about everything. Michael (Gbenga Akinnagbe) is a lawyer working 80 hours a week who has yet to make partner. As they chase these false gods, Bradshaw leaves us to laugh at their foibles and wonder where happiness lies. Worshiping a chanting guru, indulging in bottles of gin, snorting cocaine, or engaging in adultery are all temporary remedies for what ails this moneyed class. But while the play has its moments of unexpected amusement and is much more successful on the whole than Bradshaw’s last endeavor, Intimacy, it doesn’t quite achieve the trenchant satirical commentary that you suspect it’s aiming for.īradshaw focuses his gaze on highly paid New Yorkers who live in million dollar apartments but can’t figure out why they are unhappy. Richmond leaves the reader begging to know what happens next to her protagonists.Thomas Bradshaw’s uneven comedy Fulfillment loves its incendiary devices””full-frontal nudity, on stage masturbation, graphic sex that nearly spills into the front row of the audience, taboo words, and accusations of racism or pedophilia bandied about casually. This is the kind of character-driven book many first novelists hope to write and few achieve. Even minor characters are developed beyond the cardboard stage. Still, he makes a great wish-fulfillment hero for a romance. Jesse is also multifaceted, though perhaps just a shade too patient and understanding to be true. That makes for a very compelling character. Susannah’s story is revealed bit by bit, making the reader unsure how she will react next. She did her homework in creating a complex backstory for Susannah, yet doesn’t dump it all on the reader. Where Richmond really excels is in characterization. She also depicts married relations, unusual in the genre, though without getting graphic. Richmond provides vivid period detail, such as the grasshopper invasion scene, and the very unromantic realities of living in a sod home. ![]() Susannah is left in the middle of the prairie with no resources and a baby coming on. But just as Susannah begins to blossom, Jesse goes missing while on a job-hunting trip. Nevertheless, Jesse Mason glimpses a strong woman behind the shy façade, and is willing to help her break her shell. She carries heavy mental baggage, legacies of undemonstrative parents, and a near-rape by an acquaintance. She’s penniless, past the first bloom of youth, and has nowhere else to go other than to marry her pastor’s homesteading brother in 1870s Dakota Territory. Susannah Underhill is an extremely reluctant mail order bride. I loved this book! It was cuts above the average Christian prairie romance that the cover led me to expect. ![]()
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