Word: momentous
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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...says, “face to face interaction and live performance are falling to the wayside.” Everything’s available on YouTube, but in “The Untitled Project,” the aim is to counteract this prevailing cultural current with an intimate moment that the performers and audience share...
...border between audience and performers is central to the production’s goals, and emphasized throughout. When the show begins, it is unclear who is acting and who is observing. “For a moment everything is on the same plane,” Davies says. And this blending of roles, leading the audience to question the nature of theater, and what it can become, is vital to the goals of “The Untitled Project.” “The only way to continue to be relevant is to use the medium...
Palmer has the most difficult task in this respect, because her character switches quickly between modes. In one moment she is a naïve newlywed; in another, a crazy woman trying to understand that her husband no longer loves her; and in another, a frustrated mother. She injects humor into all of these roles, especially with lines such as her distracted dismissal of her son: “Can’t you go play with the dead bodies or something? You’re eleven; you should like that sort of thing.” Palmer rises...
Additionally, Giuliani’s attempt to break the fourth wall fails. Moments where the actors directly interact with the audience are out of place and serve no practical purpose in a play that is already jarring and difficult to comprehend. The debris strewn across the back rows of the theater feels unnecessary, while the moment when Palmer tosses a beach ball into the crowd is awkward and confusing...
...great moment to see these two incredibly intelligent bright men who happen to be father and son and business partners,” she said. “It was nice to see that the HBS network extends beyond campus—and that there’s a human aspect...