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...stides Vargas’ “Jardín de Pulpos,” presents the fantastical world of a Latin American man’s lost past and his dreams that make it come back alive. Set in an imagined “theatre under the sand,” “Jardín de Pulpos,” which translates as “Octopus’ Garden,” will run in the Adams Pool Theatre through December 3. Despite being an entirely Spanish-language production, Alvarez, Bortolamedi, and cast members hope that...

Author: By Alex C. Nunnelly, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: "Jardín de Pulpos" Reveals Life Under Dictator's Tentacles | 12/1/2009 | See Source »

This aesthetic language is key to creating a “theatre under the sand,” which Bortolamedi identifies as a key goal of the production. This idea was coined by playwright Federico Lorca, the author of TEATRO’s last production “Baja La Arena, El Público...

Author: By Alex C. Nunnelly, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: "Jardín de Pulpos" Reveals Life Under Dictator's Tentacles | 12/1/2009 | See Source »

...wanted to reinvent theatre,” Bortolamedi says. “The theatre under the sand is a theatre of fantasies, of dreams and desires. Not necessarily a realistic theatre, which is just a representation of something that is there, but a theatre that seeks to define what lies behind the facade that we see everyday...

Author: By Alex C. Nunnelly, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: "Jardín de Pulpos" Reveals Life Under Dictator's Tentacles | 12/1/2009 | See Source »

...Vendetta”—he had an engaging plot for a foundation on which to construct a dazzling series of cityscapes, underground lairs, and fight scenes. This time around, however, the Wachowski brothers produce the film and leave the writing to rookie Matthew Sand and J. Michael Straczynski, who wrote the script for last year’s decidedly middling Clint Eastwood offering, “Changeling.” While McTeigue successfully creates a fantastical set of fight scenes, spouting and squelching in their admittedly gratuitous gore, Sand and Straczynski doom the movie to failure with...

Author: By Alex E. Traub, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Ninja Assassin | 11/30/2009 | See Source »

Last Monday, the generally sage New York Times columnist David Brooks drew a somber line in the sand for health-care reform: “We all have to decide what we want at this moment in history, vitality or security. We can debate this or that provision, but where we come down will depend on that moral preference.” In the eyes of Brooks and a great many others, reform may very well create a more decent society—but only at the expense of economic dynamism and our oh-so-youthful American spirit...

Author: By Raúl A. Carrillo | Title: The Vital Question | 11/30/2009 | See Source »

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