Not only has he directed Worcester County Light Opera Company's season-opening "Avenue Q" and designed one of his customarily ingenious sets, but he also can take credit for creating the various puppets that kept the audience licentiously entertained on Friday evening.
With his clergymen "Father Mavourneen," who becomes a liberal, Gary Snyder-reading sympathizer with the hippie youth, and "Monsignor O'Hara" who cross-dresses and cruises licentiously through the first part of the masque, Sorrentino deploys some of the traditional tools of anti-clerical satire in Boccaccio, Rabelais, Machiavelli, Aretino, Diderot, Sade, and Joyce.
Conceding that novels have "not seldom proved licentiously luxuriant," The Gleaner's defender maintains that it would be easy enough to write one that would "be more serviceable to the interests of virtue than even the ethic page" (49).
Similarly, I contend that, like La Lupe and other licentiously lyrical singers, Silva "transgressively eroticized herself as a feminist act of resistance [and this] possibly remains one of the most central motivations behind the masculine silencing to which she [is] subjected." (47)