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...guess if it made it really a lot more noisy, I wouldn't like it," said Audrey J. Marcus, a first-year student in the Divinity School...
...Renaissance whose greatest works were created for demanding clients, and about half of the works in this collection are commissioned pieces. Strangely, the difference between professional and artistic photographs is not detectable. There is as much power and mystery in the photographs which adorned the pages of a Neiman Marcus catalog as in those made as artworks. In fact, according to Smith, it's in commissioned pieces that one can assess a photographer's competence and skill. Only a truly skilled artist will be able to work with the limitations imposed by a client and still produce an image full...
...neither will Marcus Stern's production of Woyzeck at the American Repertory Theater. Based on a series of fragments by the German playwright, Georg Buchner, the work was hailed as the first truly modern play when it first appeared on stage, some eighty years after it had been written in 1836. The last work Buchner worked on before he died of influenza at twenty-three, the collection of vignettes was performed to great success in 1913 in Germany. The stark Woyzeck diagnosed and condemned the nation's sick soul at a time characterized by psychoanalysis and introspection...
...even if Buchner's vignettes themselves are unconventional, director Marcus Stern refuses to leave them alone. Sped up to the pace of an action movie, Gideon Lester's new translation of Woyzeck is as beaten and pushed around as its title character. The ART warps and distorts any semblance of coherence within the play. The production races through over twenty-five scenes in under sixty minutes, scarcely allowing the audience to breathe, let alone to analyze or reflect. Woyzeck (Thomas Derrah) drops through trap-doors, dashes up ladders and circles the stage. Scene changes resemble film cuts; music clips...
None are adherents of Scientology. Many are Jewish, provoking lots of buzz over why they endorsed a high-decibel comparison with the Holocaust. Marcus and others say they oppose any religious persecution. Several say they signed out of respect for the letter's author, entertainment attorney Bertram Fields, whose client list happens to include Scientology's most prominent celebrities, Tom Cruise and John Travolta...