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...family dissolving before our very eyes, and what we see is a world turning in on itself and collapsing into the vacuum of oblivion. What remains is the proof that the very notion of self-identity is a sham. The only thing missing from this ambitious interpretation of Mac Wellman??s play “The Hyacinth Macaw”—is subtitles. Yes, they would have been much appreciated.Director Marcus Stern, an Associate Director at the American Repertory Theatre, oversaw the play’s original 1994 production at Primary Stages in New York City...
...director William A. Wellman??s 1950 film “The Next Voice You Hear,” radio broadcasts were God’s chosen intermediary with mankind. The role of mass media in that film, and others from the period, reflected Hollywood’s growing role in American society in the 1950s, said James Hoberman, senior film critic for the Village Voice newspaper, at a seminar yesterday. Speaking to a small gathering of film aficionados at the Carpenter Center, Hoberman offered a preview of his next book, which will focus on the role...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club was wise to schedule the current production of Dracula, Mac Wellman??s take on Bram Stoker’s Gothic novel, after parent’s weekend. Throughout, it is unsparing, unsettling and unwaveringly weird...
Many words have been used to describe Wellman??s play—surreal, intense, innovative, complex, depraved, witty, excessive, frightening, hysterical, manic—but “easy to like” have never been among them...
Mainstream acceptance, of course, has never been Wellman??s goal. The current Dracula, now at the Loeb Experimental Theater, deserves much credit for remaining staunchly true to Wellman??s spirit and creating a hauntingly memorable evening...
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