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...play opens with the vulgar Party official Skripkin accompanying his mother-in-law shopping for his upcoming wedding. The first act centers on Skripkin's break with his fellow workers to marry into the petty bourgeoisie. The act is, without exception, unintelligible. The fact that the actors must play different parts in each scene, with no apparent logical transition, just adds to the confusion...
...only character not affected by Sellars' mania is Skripkin, the defrosted man. Alone in his cell, an object of curiosity and disgust to the neo-socialist zombies, Skripkin is a solitary figure of humanity in a commercialized, sanitized, and bureaucratized world. Chris Clemenson as Skripkin has the only real character role in the entire production--the other actors are indistinguishable screaming mummies. Led to center stage by the head zombie to be ogled at by the socialist multitudes and to utter a few 'human-like' sounds, Clemenson's speech is a touching, evocative moment in a production otherwise devoid...
Perhaps we are so taken with Skripkin's speech because we are in a similar position. Assaulted by Sellars' sound and fury, we feel as confused, trapped and embarrassed as Skripkin in his cage. Why does Peter Sellars have so much contempt for his audience that he goes so far out of his way to make things inaccessible...
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