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...savvy, wit and scrounging invention, Ruckus Manhattan is unique. Over the years, Grooms, Gross and their friends have been making their robust tableaux, always on a shoestring but never on such a scale. If one could envisage a fairground produced by Robert Crumb and Krazy Kat out of Dr. Caligari's Cabinet, this would be it. The Ruckus group are omnivores, infatuated with New York, and you are never allowed to forget it. Archie Peltier, an artist from Minneapolis, was responsible for most of the engineering, and his handiwork is impressive. People can walk up inside the Ruckus World...
Donald Barthelme hit the fan during the great Pop art inversion with his short-story collection Come Back, Dr. Caligari (1964). Like his counterparts in painting, Barthelme was out to turn the boring, the banal and the shiny waste of the world's largest consumer society into art with a small a-the smaller the better. "Fragments are the only forms I trust," he wrote, and his plotless arrangements of culture-junk, blown-up clichés and absurd juxtapositions of daily monotonies showered down like confetti...
Film Odyssey: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. This 1919 German silent directed by Robert Wiene is one of the few textbook classics that holds up as more than a curiosity piece. A lunatiesire-controlling-the-asylum tale with nordant echoes of disheaval in Weimar Germany. CHANNEL 2. Wednesday...
...particular wit as a choreographer of decadence--his "Rich Man's Frug" was one of the best things in his earlier staging of Sweet Charity--serves to summon up a wealth of period references--the tinkly, jarring music of Kurt Weill, the angular, fantastic interiors of Dr. Caligari, the smoky torch songs of Blue Angel, and the bloated Bacchanites of George Grosz. In fact, his effects are occasionally so persuasive as to be claustrophobic--particularly when you add the excess of close-ups Fosse uses to tell his story...
...whose fault is it that everything about the production-including the Caligari -like setting-is inimical to the reality portrayed? It is too easy to criticize students who have responded deeply enough to a serious and difficult play to invest the necessary time and pain involved in its presentation. No, this Look Back in Anger seems a product of a society where culture and social truth are isolated from each other. And, in its own lack of provision for programs which could combine theatrical activity with a meaningful social or historical perspective, Harvard only perpetuates our society's cultural superficialities...