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Michelle Carter, playwright and creative writer professor at San Francisco State University, is the award-winning author of Hillary and Soon-Yi Shop For Ties. Her most recent work is an evening of drama and original music based on the life of Theodore J. Kaczynski ’62 called Ted Kaczynski Killed People With Bombs. Carter sheds light on her creative process in this e-mail...
...Kaczynski came to Harvard as a shy working-class 16-year-old boy from a Chicago suburb. What we most directly portray in the play is Kaczynski’s participation in the Murray experiment, a three-year personality experiment in which he was a paid subject. After writing extensive autobiographies and voluminous ruminations on many topics, subjects in their third year were interrogated, their ideas and beliefs challenged in (by most accounts) combative and hostile sessions called “dyad sessions.” Subjects then watched footage of their responses under pressure, and were asked to comment...
...intentions of the play is to shatter that “tortured genius” sentimentality. Kaczynski was certainly a math prodigy of sorts, skipped two grades and so on. But mathematicians seem to concur that his research topic, boundary functions, was a backwater, a narrow field of limited interest. As for his image as a political visionary, if you spend some time with the manifesto and the works that inspired its writing, you’ll see how unoriginal a document it is. It’s a mix of borrowed ideas and personal pathology (e.g. things he?...
...want the title to suggest a lugubrious biopic (“The Life and Times of the Mysterious Unabomber”). I wanted a title with some point of view to it. The intention of this title is to announce, up front, square one: Hey, Ted Kaczynski Killed People with Bombs. To say: Let’s start there, in that fundamentally unglamorous place...
...long did it take you before you could spell Kaczynski without thinking about...