Word: post-modern
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Elegant. Hauntingly beautiful. The sets for Henrik Ibsen's When We Dead Awaken, based on an original English translation by American Repertory Theatre Artistic Director Robert Brustein, confirm post-modern director Robert Wilson as a visual artist of the first order. The scenery, designed by Wilson and John Conklin, is minimalist yet loses nothing in sumptuousness or effect...
Unlike the visual arts or even the humanities, drama resists post-modern transformation. The means of conveying one's message or experience are not immaterial objects, but living, thinking human beings. We expect them to act like such because we are, for better or for worse, only able to learn from them when we can envision ourselves in their place. When We Dead Awaken fails to make this fundamental connection...
...demonstrators who say "Troops Home Now," those "realists" who know so much better--have already ignored what I have had to say about this in the past. Long before the phrase "New World Order" had once again become common coin, I picked it out as the vanguard of post-modern imperialism, a foreign policy that would be profoundly undemocratic--the Bush Doctrine. So much for political analysis...
...horse doing something onlya horse can do, "I could caste a spell to make itall go away, and it would be a really cool spellwith toads feet, hiar of newt, and a twist of batwings as a spritzer, but let me ask you, 'Have youever seen a post-modern clown...
...looked inthe mirror. And no longer knew why I was a clown.And I was scared. I was scared of being a clown. Iwas scared of being with other Clowns. I felt thatI was the only Clown in the world who must everfeel this way...I felt like a post-modern clown...