“Men on Boats”─A Rollicking Pioneer Delusion, at ACT, S.F.
Jaclyn Backhaus Spins Men, Gender, & Western Lore by Jennifer Ann Charron and Barry David Horwitz In “Men on Boats,” Jaclyn Backhaus transforms the deadpan journals of a 19th century explorer into a thrilling, hilarious play that ridicules masculine myths and U.S. “Manifest Destiny.” One-armed Major John Wesley Powell, (self-assured Liz Sklar) keeps meticulous…