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...vote? 2004: An Election Year Odyssey, an original one-act play performed this past weekend in the Adams House Pool Theater, attempted to answer this question with a Dickens’ Christmas Carol-like pastiche of history lessons, reworked Broadway show tunes, forced rhymes, and both good and bad jokes...
...Odyssey begins with a modern activist, Laura J. Arandes ’05, arguing with David, politically apathetic fellow student, Jeremiah P. Hendren ’08, who just wants to make it to history class on time. David doesn’t understand how politics applies to his life, he doesn’t want to sort through confusing political propaganda and he doesn’t think his one vote will matter...
...Vote for democracy,” and “Vote because you can.” But it’s hard to say whether the basis of these appeals is more logical than emotional, and certainly in the end Odyssey doesn’t make an airtight case for one individual to vote...
...part of the play, however. While it is important to remember the historical processes that have gotten us to today’s democracy, it is just as valid to question government systems that can make a citizen feel powerless and then apathetic. It would seem that Odyssey achieved at least one of its goals: generating discussion. Quite a few departing audience members, myself included, were rehashing David’s questions as we left the theater, debating the possibilities and effectiveness of political involvement. And yes, I’ll be voting...
THEATER | 2004: An Election Year Odyssey...