Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...propose that every Harvard undergraduate invite a homeless person to Loker Commons sometime during the present semester. It might be for a snack or a soda or a three-course dinner. In the end result, each student should have tithed his Crimson Cash--that is, spent roughly $10 on the indigent...
...earliest minutes. While an unseen saxophonist plays, tableaus of conflict are played out on the stage. A young man (Kevin Crockett) fights with his preacher father (Tyrone Bean); a preposterous, grade-schooler's version of a prostitute (Melanie Futorian) fights with her john (Dwight Hart). Meanwhile, incredibly realistic-looking homeless people (Nick Linski and Tania Guimond), complete with filthy hair and that unsettling, rocking motion of the mentally disturbed, drift through the audience, with cups out for money...
Offset with the hyperreality of the homeless characters in the audience (several audience members drew close their valuables or else took out change to give the actors, assuming they were authentic), the sum effect is one of deranged imbalance. This is especially true when a jazz band takes the stage and the homeless pair perform a choreographed dance and pretend to be playing along on tubes shaped like saxophones and guitars. The scene is perplexing, pointless, and childishly extreme...
...comically unconvincing mugging; Joe the drummer is hauled off by the police after being accused by the prostitute of some vague crime, in response to which she does a hilarious touch-down-type victory dance. To make matters worse, all this is narrated by the formerly mute homeless...
...guess they want me to find a place at the park and lay down with the homeless. Well, that's not going to happen. I'm going to support my kids...