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...someone says I want a car on stage, for a second you freeze, but then you start thinking of how you can make that happen,” he said, referring to a situation he encountered while producing “Knock,” a French comedy...
...wide social events, like sports events, barbeques by the Charles, and special student-faculty functions, which would be attended by each dorm’s cohort of fellows and freshmen. The goal is the creation of community on three levels—within dormitories, so that freshmen could imaginably knock on someone’s dorm outside their entryway when they need help the night before Ec 10 problem sets are due; within entryways, so that the little crises that define the freshman experience can be dealt with by proctors and present upperclassmen before they become major issues; and within...
Burkle’s direction brings his trademark quirky yet sophisticated creativity to the show. His decision to have Chan play Dr. Knock is inventive, providing another way for this role, as a symbol of modernism and industrialization, to break with tradition. The intermission—what can only be termed a period of “decontamination”—is a masterstroke that wins the audience’s attention and amusement...
...discovery” of the microbe in the nineteenth century.) To what extent do we let medicine govern our bodies more than is necessary? And it’s difficult to avoid allusions to Hitler in the stiffly crisp and completely insane figure of Dr. Knock and the mechanistic modernization he envisions in his “medicine,” exposing the issue of whether modern medicine is actually kind of scientific totalitarianism...
...pressed on, convinced that there must be some sort of central area that was just for students, where they could unwind and be with friends. We persisted that no such place existed. After several uncomfortable moments, I recommended that they just go into the dorms and knock on doors...