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...getting,” says producer Kevin J. Davies ’10, “the plot is not as important as the spectacle.” “The Untitled Project,” on the other hand, is driven almost entirely by the text??because its aim is not to merely tell a story but also to create a relationship...
When a student requests a book from the Depository on the Hollis Web site, the text??s barcode is placed on a list that is passed on to one of the 23 Depository staffers...
...take on a double role. We are at once 1808 bourgeois intellectuals invited to witness the playacting of inmates and our own theatre-going selves, who watch both the play itself and the intellectuals’ reaction to it. This idea of surveillance and reaction comes from the text??Weiss was influenced by the theories of Bertolt Brecht, a German playwright who believed in politicizing theater by highlighting its artificiality—and Leaf uses it fully...
...long debate about the nature of mankind comes across as exactly that—a debate more arcane than compelling. Leaf has said that he wished to compare the two title characters rather than contrast them, as is normally done, but in doing so, he fails to exploit the text??s inherent strength. Marat and Sade are so physically different—one spends most of the play horizontal and infirm while the other fully commands the stage—that considering them as equals flattens the excitement of their encounter...
...production” on French readers in the decades before the revolution and how “a new way of reading, which no longer took the book as authoritative, became widespread.” In this era, the new innovation, so to speak, could be called the individualized text??the pamphlet or the periodical or the easily reproducible book, which allowed people to read on their own time and by themselves, which, as Chartier argues, made pre-revolutionary Frenchmen into more critical thinkers who would no longer tolerate the inadequacies of the ancien régime...