Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Until Dark is one of the few plays that actually works better as a film. Just ask Quentin Tarantino--this summer, he starred in a miserably static Broadway production of the play that paled in comparison to the genuinely frightening 1967 film starring Audrey Hepburn. In addition to its complex roles, which require subtle yet stead-fast interpretation, it is an immensely technical production filled with lighting and staging tricks that require consistently perfect timing. Thus, when the Adams House Drama Society announced that it was staging Wait Until Dark in the claustrophobic Pool Theater, eyebrows were raised all over...
...also expresses in her introduction a tentative hope that along with the rise of institutional destruction and degradation of whole populations have developed the legal tools for peace and recovery. She writes, "Some of the incidents of mass violence are linked...by wondrous, though painful and complex, transformations of the surrounding societies after the events. Less oppressive, and even democratic regimes, [have] emerged." It is those "legal responses" to the horrors that are the focus of her work...
...these problems in the book are really a reflection of the problems involved in tackling such a topic as mass violence. There are no real answers, and the deeper you dig, the more complex the issues become. As Professor Minow herself puts it, "There are no tidy endings following mass atrocity." If we are to tell someone's story, whose story shall we tell? Whose perspective should we use when trying to judge the effects of the trials? Which group will be represented--victims, bystanders or perpetrators? The boundaries between these classifications are often blurred. Which individuals should we select...
Symphony No. 1 in D by Mahler, a darker and considerably more complex piece, followed as the second piece. Mahler's life, particularly where romance was concerned, was known to be tumultous--he fell in love and planned to run away with a married woman but failed to show up at their meeting place and subsequently threw himself into composing, the program informs the reader. Many of Mahler's works reflect his own inner turmoil, and Symphony No. 1 in D is no exception...
...about, repeatedly pushing one lady friend aside to make room for the next. Just as Lee never settles down with any one of his companions, Allen also flits about, refusing to stick to any element of the film long enough to develop it into an integral part of a complex structure...