Word: utopianism
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Face Value, the much-awaited world premiere written by David Henry Hwang, promises "a place to start building your world." In fact, what the author of M. Butterfly offers us is in this play is a place not exactly in our world, but in a different, utopian world, where race is recognized as a mythic construction and an obstruction to human relationship. The progression from reality to fantasy is both the strongest and weakest point of the play. That the play starts as realistic political narrative and ends up as utopian romance signals the unlikelihood of racism disappearing anytime soon...
...guitars and lyrics that raise an activist banner against animal abuse and social intolerance. The quirky orchestral embellishments on Golden Earth Girl and Mistress and Maid recall the Fab Four's psychedelic phase, while C'mon People, with its heartfelt appeal to "get it right this time," evokes the Utopian sweep of Golden Slumbers and Hey Jude...
Howard Brenton calls his play Bloody Poetry "the celebration of a magnificent failure." Based on the relationship between Romantic poets Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord George Byron, the play explores their frustrated attempt to live utopian lives. However, The Leland Center's production fails to convince the audience that their failure is worth celebrating...
What's going on here? Can this dark, gritty show really be the latest spin- off in the Star Trek saga -- that seemingly never-ending cult series about a Utopian future in which knowledge and technology conquer disease and poverty and all the races and species in the universe coexist in near perfect harmony? Yes, Mr. Spock, this is Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, a syndicated show premiering the week of Jan. 4. It takes Star Trek, created 27 years ago by visionary producer Gene Roddenberry, further into uncharted territory than ever before, and is the first Trek venture initiated...
...author of that sports columns should confine his utopian visions to the daydreams of his classroom and the bowels of his papers. There sentiments, when projected on such a forum as The Crimson, unflatteringly highlight the immaturities of the paper's editorial staff...