Word: stoning
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...People have claimed that this isn’t even a play; it was written without characters, without setting, without any context for the scenes whatsoever. You can literally go through and make anything you want out of them,” Stone explains. “There are two traditional ways of looking at it. The first method is to look at each scene as a distinct world and focus on the discontinuity of each scene and how each one addresses different issues in the modern world,” Stone says. “The other method...
Ella G. Gibson ’13, who plays several of the myriad versions of Anne, agrees with Stone on the essential lack of a central character. “A lot of the scenes are not character-driven but are driven by imagery, so a lot of the focus is on the imagery that the text evokes as opposed to the relationships between the characters,” she says...
...don’t think the play suffers at all from not having a plot, because there’s still a sense of continuity to it,” muses Stone. “Tonally, Crimp writes with such a strong voice that that alone could tie together the whole piece... so there is a sense of continuity and structure throughout the whole thing, and it remains engaging the whole way through...It’s not a play that is interested in story in a traditional sense, but it’s definitely a play that is interested...
...incorporated into the play, as are nine different languages ranging from Spanish to Croatian to Slovenian. “Another sort of theme in this play is how we talk about the world and how we process information about the world and talk about these elements,” Stone says. “And what those elements of the world do very nicely is they help elucidate those themes by mimicking media and technology in society...
...core question in this play is ‘How do you know who anyone else is anymore?—yourself included,’” Stone says in between runs of one of the play’s numerous multilingual vignettes. “I think it asks us to consider a world where terrorism, genocide, and abuse and all these things are sort of the norm and then ask ourselves how we can go on living in this world and why we don’t give these things more thought...