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...Surrealist qualities of the ambitious play—put up this weekend in the Adams House Pool Theater, written and produced by Jessica S. Benjamin ’07 and directed by Dipika Guha—seemed almost unquestionable. The dialogue, the discontinuities, and the play’s fundamental indifference to narrative all pointed to the same Surrealist conclusion: logic was not welcome here...
...Gore really wants to save the planet, he can try this: Turn off the lights. Ditch the heated pool. Ride the subway. And spare us the carbon-trading piety...
...this show full-on, it’s going to be three hours, it’s going to have 20 people in it, and it’s going to have effects and general badassness. Because of the way the budget works here, the size of the talent pool, and the attention span of the college audience, we made it so it’s 10 characters, cut down the play so it’s about two hours, and renewed some things that would have been budget problems. So we’re adapting, yeah, but rewording Shakespeare...
...interest. Director Phillip Haas convincingly evokes the paranoid atmosphere in Iraq, with its confusing web of alliances and grotesque ironies. Particularly successful is the portrait of the Green Zone, even if it is driven home rather more emphatically than necessary: Anna and Dan lounge by the pool at a luxurious club as mortar attacks continue outside, and they make love to the sound of gunfire. At the same time, the film portrays U.S. soldiers with a striking lack of nuance. No explanation surfaces for the drowning at Samarra, and members of the military consistently paint themselves as ignorant thugs, spouting...
...says Benjamin. “It’s also exciting to see something to go from the page to the stage, but also a little terrifying too.” “The Secret Lives of Umbrellas” will open in the Adams House Pool Theater today, March 16th...