![]() ![]() ![]() Bad as Daphne's experiences were, it's frightening to think what she would have had to face in an actual high school, surrounded by sexually anxious and conformist teenagers. So it's not clear exactly how much her journey through the institutions destroyed something vital in her and how much it helped. It's not clear whether she just mouthed off or actually hurt other people, or herself. Daphne was an apprentice/sex-partner to a criminal who lived next door (next door where, exactly?). The hideously selfish parents-brutal father, self-involved mother-are sketched in, as is a younger sister.Īt some point both girls appear to have been half-starved by their neglectful father. The chief difficulty with Emily Solomon's adaptation of Scholinski's memoir is that it leaves all the gaps common to the memoir form, gaps that become bewildering when the material is staged. ![]() By her account, the doctors found it easier to deal with her aggression and dabblings with alcohol and drugs than with her refusal to dress and act like a girl. ![]() A troubled and troublesome kid, Scholinski was chucked into a state hospital when she was 15 by her apparently equally disturbed parents. "The Last Time I Wore a Dress," which inaugurates Source Theatre's off-night "Liaisons" series, is an adaptation of Daphne Scholinski's memoir about her three years in mental institutions. ![]()
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