Word: roofed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Airplanes on the Roof...
...Airplanes on the Roof is the story of a mentally ill woman's attempt to reconcile her own view of the world--rife with dissolving buildings, alien super-intelligence, and time travel--with the everyday world society is attempting to impose upon her. We sympathize with "M" (Betsy Aidem), as she conjures up our own fears of losing the ability to trust our senses and expresses our own desires to be accepted by society without having to compromise with...
...show opens with music, a buzzing and humming so powerful you may wonder if Glass actually commissioned 1000 airplanes to land on the roof of the theater. The music intensifies; the walls shake. No longer do you hear the music, you feel it rattling your rib cage, shaking your elbows, your knees, your thighs. Harmonies become distorted, and as they change, they disrupt the rhythm of your heartbeat. A hint of melody develops, disappears, reappears; it is the theme to E.T., except it appears to have been rewritten by someone under the influence of LSD. M appears onstage...
David Henry Hwang, whose Tony award-winning M. Butterfly is still on Broadway, wrote 1000 Airplanes on the Roof and remains true to Glass's experimental use of time and changing rhythm. At one point M, sinking hopelessly into madness, cries out "Time is a lottery!"--a lottery that pays off only delusion. Hwang also plays with the notion of illusion being more powerful than reality, continuing with a theme he develops in M. Butterfly. Like M. Butterfly, 1000 Airplanes on the Roof is in many ways a study of what happens to the human spirit when all conventions...
Perhaps Hwang and Glass's visionary view does not provide us with the answer we are looking for, but a night with M and 1000 Airplanes on the Roof can guide us to explore the depths of our passions and help us to overcome the limits of our reason...