Cloud 9

<em>Cloud Nine</em> is an inventive surrealistic and entertaining look at sexual repression and sexual role conditioning.<br>The first act takes placei n Victorian Africa suggeting the parallel between colonial and sexual repression. Clive the whtie man imposes his ideals on his family and the natives. Betty his wife is played by a man because she wants to be what men want her to be; and Joshua their black servant is played by a white man because he wants to be what whites want him to be.<br>The second act is set in London in 1979--in the changing sexuality of our own time. The characters who have ages only twenty-five years have become more real to themselves men suffer as well as women and our identities are warped by conforming to unnatural norms.<br>