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...movement of all seven players and their various intonations are in unison, yet they trip up the rhythm of the play by seeming to trip over each other in the small space. Still, stutters and stammers—both vocal and technical—are forgivable in the context of the play’s various moves to crack the fourth wall...
Imagine a play. Any play. Now remove the following elements: plot, character, setting, context. What remains is “Attempts on Her Life,” the play by Martin Crimp that opens tonight and runs until November 21 in the Loeb Experimental Theater...
...People have claimed that this isn’t even a play; it was written without characters, without setting, without any context for the scenes whatsoever. You can literally go through and make anything you want out of them,” Stone explains. “There are two traditional ways of looking at it. The first method is to look at each scene as a distinct world and focus on the discontinuity of each scene and how each one addresses different issues in the modern world,” Stone says. “The other method...
...Bedouin Ark,” the opening poem in Will Alexander’s new collection of poetic monologues. It is not a propitious start: the combined effect of “de-existence” and “post-exist” in this context is one of self-conscious jargonizing. “Ark” is one of five shorter poems that serve in this context as an introduction to the title poem, which at some 70 pages could be described as an attempt to resurrect the genre of the poetic epic. The shorter works...
...arts article "High Art" took a quote about drug use in art from Extension School instructor John McMillian out of context. In addition to saying that many artistic greats used drugs during their most creative periods, McMillan said that he does not advocate drug use and that some of the artists suffered mightily from the negative side effects of drugs...