Word: functionals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When the American Repertory Theatre puts up a show, whether it's Peter Pan or Bertolt Brecht, every scene feels like an existential dialogue in the dark. It's partly a function of the Loeb Mainstage itself and partly a function of A.R.T. sets which are too conceptual to bother setting the right time-of-day tone. This darkening affect is only a part of an A.R.T "feel" that touches almost every show they produce, and their most recent, Henrik Ibsen's The Master Builder, is no exception...
...anticipating that they're gonna press us for 40 minutes like they did last time," said freshman guard Jennifer Monti. "The function of their press isn't really to get the ball, but to wear us down. We've been preparing for that...
...Really, Widener is dead. Widener's mom is dead. His little shrine is an example of history not used for what it can teach, but history simply as an obsession. Form isn't complementing function-it is toppling it. I mean, the man collected books--presumably he had an interest in their contents. When our sense of the past gets out of hand, the dead, whom we try to remember because they lived and because we like the way they did so, become like museums or antique stores, where children are instructed to keep their hands in their pockets...
Really, Widener is dead. Widener's mom is dead. His little shrine is an example of history not used for what it can teach, but history simply as an obsession. Form isn't complementing function-it is toppling it. I mean, the man collected books--presumably he had an interest in their contents. When our sense of the past gets out of hand, the dead, whom we try to remember because they lived and because we like the way they did so, become like museums or antique stores, where children are instructed to keep their hands in their pockets...
...believes the world needs to be rebuilt from the bottom up, in a "next industrial revolution." That means everything from products to buildings to cities to "definitions of beauty" and constructs of the human mind. Beauty, he says, embodies function. A beautiful woman who harms you is not beautiful; a beautiful building that spews fumes and spreads cancer is not beautiful. "How do we love all children?" means "How can we look seven generations into the future if we leave behind the detritus of this designer society?" "For a strategy of change," he says, "we need a strategy of hope...