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The Fate of the Artist by Eddie Campbell, of From Hell fame, continues the author's recent interest in alternate forms of autobiography (see Alec: How to Be an Artist.) A bold, Pirandellian book, Fate is structured like a detective story, but the missing character is the author himself. Fusing...
...farce. There was a scene of an assassination attempt played as a sitcom, complete with broad mugging, slapstick, and a laugh track (provided by three actors behind a curtain). This scene was amusing and unsettling in its incongruity, but it was also confusing, marking a radical shift from the characterizations that had been set up to that point. The modernization was not confined to the characterizations and dress. In a cinematic touch, slides with credits and captions (such as “He receives a ghostly apparition”) were projected onto a curtain behind the action. The set itself...
In Rushdie’s “Haroun,” a 1990 children’s novel, the title character Haroun enters a bus depot and passes by several admonitions written on the walls surrounding the depot’s courtyard. Likewise, in Viswanathan’s novel...
By MARY A. BRAZELTONCrimson Staff WriterThere were riots in the streets of Dublin when John Millington Synge’s provocative “The Playboy of the Western World” was first produced in Ireland in 1907. Running until May 6, the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC) production...
Thirty-year-old Misha Borisovich Vainberg, the hero of Absurdistan, is in every way and dimension an exaggerated character: grossly fat, filthy rich, loudly sentimental and operatically miserable as only a Russian can be. Vainberg lives in St. Petersburg, but his spiritual home is America, which he adores beyond all...