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...found it not only interesting but playable. I thought this work, Saunders first, might even be exciting in the theatre. But-dear friends and ex-wives-you never know until the product is as they say. on the counter, and I have now discovered I was wrong. Director David Boorstin does every thing he can for Saunders play and yet the play emerges as a stiff...
...DIRECTOR BOORSTIN. my heart goes out. He has ransacked his highly fertile comic imagination to give the work life, and his failure reflects not a bit on his ample theatrical skills. His staging is sprinkled with Godot -like schtick and much of it is amusing. I also liked some tricks he did with recorded music and the stage itself during the show's first moments...
...that? Must the dissenter remain isolated in a closed circle of "vagrancy and uncertainty?" Must Boorstin's Consumption Community and his radical New Barbarians be polarized in two similarly illusive yet conflicting worlds of "self-fulfilling prophecies...
...Boorstin accuses the dissenters of rejecting experience for sensation. Yet the two aren't mutually exclusive. The opposite of sensation is non-sensation, and this is what the New Barbarian rejects. In a society which has imposed a model upon humanity, pursuit of sensory awareness is a search for humanity. Boorstin's New Barbarian (Perhaps we might call him the New American?) reacts to the vague but stifling conformity which Boorstin describes so well...
...prophetic book, The Image, Mr. Boorstin gropes for an answer...