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...brothers injected into their designs—which extended beyond residences, though their bungalows became their signature—but the way that they eased their creations into the existing conditions with which they were working. This naturalism made them an embodiment of the American Arts and Crafts Movement, which imbued the creation of furniture and the domestic with a political aspect; working in opposition to the sterilizing effects of the Industrial Revolution, the movement emphasized a return to handicraft, an importance of organic materials, and an emphasis on style within the middle-class home. For the brothers Greene, this...
...music end. Hans and I have peripherally worked with each other already so it seemed like a natural fit. He’s a very responsive composer, both in terms of what he’s doing musically and also in terms of being aware of how the movement and music interact together.I’m also restaging a piece that Bong-Inh Koh and I conceived of together involving the cello not just being an accompanist but being a part of the piece, so the cellist is on the stage. The act of playing the cello involves really...
...Seeing a man go to the edge of the field, he rose and went to the foreman, who was suspicious but gave his permission. In the tall grass beside an irrigation ditch, Tully squatted a peaceful moment.” The seeming foray into social realism is actually a movement into second-order subversion; “Fat City,” even as it eschews its own genre conventions, declines shallow existential meditation in witness to the reality of the bare need to survive. Gardener’s narrative ambivalence resonates with Tully’s own casual progression...
...suspenseful contrast to ticking bombs and explosions. When James confuses a dead boy’s bomb-strapped body for the young Iraqi kid he’d befriended, his reaction is both sincere and destructive—like no shortage of other situations in Iraq. The movement from the commonplace to the unbelievable creates a surreality similar to that of “Apocalypse Now.” In one scene, a soldier almost annoyingly complains about his duty; immediately after, he is forced to wipe fresh blood from bullets so they can be fired. The effect of such...
...begs Kempner and her audience to indulge in this almost uniformly positive portrayal. It’s difficult to find fault with a woman who raised a family while writing her own award-winning show for over 25 years—decades before the Women’s Liberation movement began to take shape...