Word: minamata
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L.A.T.C. has just closed the year's splashiest example of the drama of the abstruse. Minamata takes its name from a Japanese fishing village that was afflicted with industrially caused mercury poisoning, and many of the show's powerful images derived from W. Eugene Smith's documentary photographs, published in 1972 by LIFE. The text explores how modern society distances those who cause a disaster from those who suffer the effects. But it is also about -- to the extent that the hallucinatory stream of consciousness can be said to be "about" anything -- transvestism, multinational corporations, military buildups, Hostess cupcakes...
...Minamata is precisely the sort of piece New Yorkers expect to find only in New York. There are no plans to take it there, and that is too bad. Yet maybe the best measure of the health of the American theater is that now New Yorkers, too, have to travel to see the full range of what American creators have to offer...
...MINAMATA. The premonitory 1948 pollution tragedy in a Japanese fishing village inspired the images in this harrowing multimedia alarm at the Los Angeles Theater Center...
...MINAMATA. The premonitory 1948 pollution tragedy in a Japanese fishing village inspired the images in this harrowing multimedia alarm at the Los Angeles Theater Center...