May 3, 2016 · Industries
There’s this thing that happens when you walk into a space like YBCA and someone’s decided to call the thing a retrospective. That word alone, retrospective, it’s already half-dead on arrival, embalmed in institutional reverence before the first note even sounds. But what I’m getting from this image, from whatever the hell Luciano conjured in […]
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May 1, 2016 · Absolute Solipsism
my father Charles R. Lyons in Shakespeare’s Love Labour’s Lost for Farm Players at Stanford University mid 1960s LOOK AT THIS MAGNIFICENT BASTARD. Stanford University, mid 1960s, some production of Love’s Labour’s Lost that probably nobody remembers except it’s Shakespeare and Shakespeare MATTERS because Shakespeare understood that language is the only weapon we’ve got against […]
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April 21, 2016 · Industries
Contemporary chamber ensemble Wild Rumpus perform Fausto Romitelli’s 2003 video opera An Index of Metals at Freight and Salavage in Berkeley. Nathaniel Berman conductor…
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April 13, 2016 · Industries
A zookeeper, a docent, an animal behaviorist, and a mental health professional arguing over the proper protocol for a conflicted anteater. That’s not theater, that’s a fever dream someone had after reading too much Ionesco while working at a municipal zoo. It’s beautiful. It’s completely deranged. It’s exactly the kind of thing that makes you […]
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April 8, 2016 · Engineering
At 6:57 a.m. on April 7th, 2016 (this specificity matters, that exact fucking minute matters) Muriel Maffre, Ryan Tacata and myself dragged our asses up Slacker Hill in the Marin Headlands to do something either profoundly necessary or completely insane. We performed fragments of a lost Euripides tragedy, one of those plays that got shredded […]
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April 8, 2016 · Engineering
The thing about standing on a hill in the dark waiting for the sun is that you’re participating in the oldest ritual humans have, the one where we gather to witness something larger than ourselves and somehow make it mean more by being there together. So we’re up here in the Marin Headlands with the […]
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March 26, 2016 · Speculation
Speculation: Rehearsing Sophocles #116. Fantastic rehearsal/experimentation/playing/imagining with amazing people at sunrise under a full moon… for Sophocles Savage Blasts. Here’s what the photographs don’t tell you: it’s cold as hell out there at the Wave Organ at dawn. The bay doesn’t care about your artistic intentions. The concrete under your feet is unforgiving, and the […]
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