Word: america
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...remaining three photographers diversified the exhibit's themes of loss and separation. Dara Young Cho '00, a VES concentrator, presented portraits of Vietnamese families who have immigrated to America. While all the images show the subjects "at home," the essence of separation in her work lies in the fact that these children, grandmothers, brothers and fathers are all thousands of miles from their homeland. Three siblings sit in front of stylized American wallpaper, but above their heads are paintings and family portraits in Vietnam. One wife sits with her husband on their couch digging her bare toes into the carpet...
Perhaps without meaning to, director Anthony Drazan rips the sheets off a slumbering America and slaps it awake to its morning after. Crammed into Hurlyburly are the ugly effects of all our modern fascinations, and the revelation is poetically set in the land of the beautiful people--Hollywood...
...topics sung about onstage, are brought up with a bit of cliche, but are tackled with honest zeal nonetheless. The plot revolves around three families--one upper-class WASP, one black and one immigrant Jewish--who are striving for success and happiness in turn-of-the-century America, which is offering them as much adversity as it is opportunity...
...soon sours Coalhouse and Sarah's blossoming romance, and tragedy moves into center stage by the conclusion of Act I. In the midst of all of this, Tateh and his daughter struggle more and more to find money for food, much less the fabled wealth that they heard about America back home. After suffering in the streets and in a variety of sweatshops, their own hope dissipates almost entirely--until a delightful turn of events tosses them back into the lives of the other people onstage...
Ragtime tells an important story--albeitin a vaguely cliched manner--that gains even moresignificance as we approach the turn of our owncentury. One hundred years from now, what willthese days be most remembered for--the marvelousaccomplishments that America has made, or theracial and economic problems that still plague oursociety...