Word: experimental
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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NO ONE COULD ACCUSE Gregg Lachow and the other makers of Woyzeck of getting inadvertantly lost in mainstage space. They are in love with it. Stepping inside, the audience ventures almost shyly onto a vast Siberian wasteland, its cellophane spaces crackling with emptiness, its border indistinct. Mountains of some synthetic...
The play itself makes such unusual demands of a director that a sweeping, radical interpretation seems called for. When George Buchner wrote the "script" in 1837 (as is prominently heralded on the programs, perhaps to forestall suspicions of yet another strange modern experiment), he neglected to finish or polish his...
At the end of "West Side," which is more an indulgence of language that a description of a neighborhood, Nye urges: "Let the names be verses in a city that sings." The exuberance, unfortunately, has the sterile air of a failed experiment-the result of pushing a clever idea to...
Since the names are completely unmodified, and the only motion, abstract or real, occurs when "names," the poem's subject, move around in weird physical ways, the conjuring becomes sloppy. Writing, "Domingo, Monico, Francisco, shining rivulets of sound." Nye plays with more than water in a desert. Since she has...
The one unforgivable sin in any Lind world is logic. Are the Enu a race of mutants-survivors of a nuclear bomb experiment? Or are they the missing link-a throwback to the age of reptiles? Is the island paradise or purgatory? At different times, Lind has it both ways...