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commits suicide, his idealism having been destroyed. After his death, Lulu once again tries to reinstitute her involvement with Lebow. Desperately hoping that she’ll meet a new, rich Prince Charming, Lebow promotes her dancing career. Alan choreographs her pieces. Lebow knows her success is due to “dubious” audience reactions. Lulu faints on stage when she sees Lebow and his fiance in the audience. Lebow returns to her dressing room enraged, only to find himself doing her bidding. He writes a farewell note to his fiance and marries Lulu. Once wed, Lulu continues to keep numerous lovers, including an acrobat named Juan dos Très (Rodrigo), and wins the heart of Lady Swelling (Countess Geschwitz), an upper class lesbian. After finding her in his son’s arms, Lebow demands that Lulu kill herself. Instead, she turns the gun on Lebow and murders him. Once she has destroyed the only man she ever loved, Lulu professes her devotion to Alan, She begs him not to turn her in as the police pound on their door. Pandora's Box In the sequel, Pandora's Box, Lulu is imprisoned for murdering Lebow and escapes only because Lady Swelling had masterfully impersonated her and replaced her in prison. Lulu

returns home, after a year in jail, frail and broken. Carbone’s portrait of her is the only reminder of her now faded beauty. No longer hypnotized by her animalism. Lulu’s male entourage begin to exploit her commercially. Now married to Alan and in love with Casti-Piani (an unfeeling procurer), Lulu is threatened with betrayal to the police if she cannot make a profit for them. Refusing to sell her body - the only thing she ever owned - Lulu excapes with Alan, Pittsburgh, and Lady Swelling to London. Starving to death in the slums, Lulu - the only one of her group with a sense of survival - becomes a street walker. Her final lover, Jack the Ripper, stabs her to death.

Lee Breuer Lee Breuer is a writer and director with Mabou Mines and,an artistic director of Re-Cher-Chez Studio for the Avant Garde Performing Arts. He wrote and directed the trilogy Animations, A Prelude to a Death in Venice, and the performance pieces The Saint and the Football Playeers

and Sister Suzie Cinema. He taught at Yale, N: Y. U. and the University of California. His adaptation and direction of Samuel Beckett’s The Lost Ones, Play and Come and Go received wide critical acclaim and recognition, including three Obie awards. The Shaggy Dog received the 1978 award for best play. In addition to his directing for the New York Shakespeare Festival, his work has been performed at several European festivals, He has won Rockefeller and National Endowment fellowships, and is also on the Board of Theatre Communications Group. □