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...Vietnam, 1967, near Duc Pho.” Claerbout selected a photograph from the Vietnam War in which a plane, approximately forty feet above the ground, has been hit by friendly fire. He then traveled to Vietnam, found the spot where the photograph was taken, and filmed the sun??s movement over the course of a day. After condensing the change in light into three and a half minutes, Claerbout superimposed it on the photo. The viewer sees time stand still for the doomed plane while days pass within minutes, prolonging the inevitable crash. Arguably, the most ambitious...
...being too vague in defining “national standards,” from the right for being an “unfunded mandate,” and now, from Cambridge’s premier repertory theater for being all-around not good enough. Playwright and actress Nilaja Sun??s solo performance makes “No Child”—directed by Hal Brooks, set-designed by J. Michael Griggs, and running at the American Repertory Theatre through Dec. 23—very enjoyable to watch, although its critique of public education reform lacked focus...
...semi-autobiographical, self-reflexive tone weaves itself throughout the play. But Sun??s solo play is, above all, a tremendous and exhausting feat of acting. She throws herself into a bevvy of characters: The high-strung principal Mrs. Kennedy, concerned only with the school’s statewide Regents scores and the federal grants that depend on them; the abrasive security guard, who sends students home if they dare sport so much as a metal belt buckle; Sun??s landlord, who believes that sending all students to Catholic school would solve the problems of the American...
...Sun??s characters allow the audience to watch the story unfold from a number of different angles, resulting in an incredibly rich narrative. But what makes this approach most effective is the completeness with which Sun depicts each of these personalities...
...herself as one of these teachers, she also feeds her audience all the “aww” moments they need to convince them that perhaps they, too, could be life-changing, difference-making public school educators. At the end of the students’ production, one of Sun??s students tells her that her life has taken an unexpected turn, but that Sun??s course has taught her that life could hold more for her than the harsh world of the Bronx. Sun presents the scene as a moment of enlightenment, but the girl?...