Word: serfs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...studded with walled cities. Jerusalem and Rome, to name but two from antiquity, fortified themselves against enemies without. Later, in medieval times, the citizens of London and Paris built and rebuilt ramparts to safeguard their liberties, ones that many of their rural contemporaries, burdened with the feudal status of serf, were denied. Only in the 20th century has a city had a wall rammed through its innards, circumscribing the freedom of two-thirds of its people, forcing upon them a serf-like tie to the land. Only in Berlin...
...book is a critique against the cult of expertise [in the administration] that tells people you can't get involved because these people know more than you do," he says. "But there is no lord-serf mentality, students can get involved...
...MINES AND MEN is about money, a 10-degree smit from the past two productions. (Serf's Up and Sealed with a Oudhe both concerned the successful exploitation of peasants by royalists.) The first Western in the Pudding's history, Of Men appropriately concern gold, as a corps of ludierotis converge on Collier's Bluff, a gold-fevered California mining town. As the play's opening number, which had audience members nod in appreciation, succinctly observes...
...returned fire when one of three men in a car pumped six shots into his rig on I-55 near Crystal Springs, Miss. Three shots hit the driver's door, but Wells escaped unharmed. Out of fear, as much as sympathy for the strike, some truckers held a serf-proclaimed moratorium on work. Said a Texas trucker at the Crossroads Truck Stop in Gary, Ind.: "A lot of guys have given up for a few days, gone home and parked their rigs in the driveway hoping this nasty stuff will blow over." But for many, there was no choice...
Past Pudding productions have been set in 18th-century Europe ("Sealed With a Quiche"), feudal England ("Serf's Up"), and the distant future ("A Thousand Clones...