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...found as many people who support the measure as could have changed the vote in Florida," quipped CRLS student Emma Lang...
...vaguely medieval space stuffed to the gills with drawers full of type (Helvetica, Futura, you name it), a quarter-century's worth of magnesium plates and the assembled knick-knacks of the letter-press trade, Hulsey prints books and broadsides of poetry written by her friends and roommate, Susannah Lang Hollister '01, in addition to original work. In a painstaking procedure that takes anywhere from a week to several months, Hulsey first sets type and spacing material onto a composing stick. Next, she ties it all together and locks it into place on the press, which runs a sheet...
From designs for Renaissance forts to a replica of the sexy robot from Fritz Lang's Metropolis, 1926. From baroque engravings of New World cannibals in grass huts to pictures of yuppies enjoying a stroll through Celebration, Disney's "ideal town" in Florida. From Nazi racial propaganda to unalluring photos of early kibbutzim in Israel. From Stalinist kitsch in the '30s to Haight-Ashbury peace-and-love kitsch in the '60s. This intriguing range of objects and images is contained in "Utopia: The Search for the Ideal Society in the Western World," the sprawling show that kicks...
...good supporting cast. But with such a thematically saturated script, there's so much to absorb that it's easy to lose a bit in the shuffle. Here the production would have benefited from the tighter and more intimate blocking Benson uses in scenes between Rita and Lang. This, in addition to more focused lighting, might have directed the audience's attention and brought out the darker elements pervading the play...
Such elements are observed, however, by costume designer Amanda Mujica and scenic designer David J. Miller. Mujica uses just the right tones and styles to contrast the gentleness of characters such as Lang with the sharpness of the lawyers. Miller's set - an arrangement in red, white, and blue - appears to aim at the national overtones of the piece. As the play hurtles towards disaster, the lights dim and only the red remains. It is an ominous and chilling suggestion of the trappings, false ideals, and broken dreams that can hide behind a cheerful, patriotic facade...