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August 3, 2014 · FalseArt

Harold Pinter Locked in a Room in Hell, Or: How the BBC Accidentally Made Existentialism Punch You in the Face

So there’s this thing from 1964 floating around YouTube, Philip Saville’s production of Jean Paul Sartre’s No Exit (Huis Clos) for the BBC, retitled In Camera because apparently the British needed something that sounded more like a parking violation than eternal damnation. Harold Pinter is in it. Not writing it, acting in it. Playing Garcin, […]

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August 2, 2014 · Collusion

William Shakespeare’s Sonnet #20

Here’s a human, here’s a beach, here’s a poem about desire that refuses to behave itself. Figure it out. Maybe that’s the whole point. These words still work. They still cut. We’re still wrestling with the same beautiful mess: who we love, how we love, what we’re allowed to say about it, and whether […]

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July 27, 2014 · Industries

Dread at the Waterline: Ancient Terror Meets the Bread Bowl Crowd

You’ve got these three women, Dread, Horror, and Alarm, the Graeae, those primordial hags who share one fucking eye between them, and they’re not tucked away in some theater where the already converted file in with their tote bags and good intentions. No. They’re at Aquatic Park, which if you know anything about San Francisco, […]

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July 21, 2014 · Collusion

Franconia Performance Salon #11

Decay, it doesn’t announce itself with trumpets. It seeps in through the cracks like cigarette smoke under a bathroom door, until one night you’re sitting in what used to be a vital space and you realize you’re watching a wake, not a party. Franconia Performance Salon #11. By this point, the whole enterprise had that […]

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June 30, 2014 · Speculation

Beautiful lies

Speculation: Backstage We Players Macbeth at Fort Point, 2014 Backstage We Players Macbeth at Fort Point So always avoid banality. That is, avoid illustrating the author’s words and remarks. If you want to create a true masterpiece you must always avoid beautiful lies: the truths on the calender under each date you find a proverb […]

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June 28, 2014 · Industries

Desirée Holman Sophont in Action

I’ve seen a lot of places where people decide to make art happen, and most of them are lying to you about what they are. Di Rosa is different. It’s not lying. 22 acres of Northern California wetlands and this weird, sprawling collection that refuses to behave like a proper museum, it’s got that swampy, […]

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June 27, 2014 · Absolute Solipsism

always looking over my shoulder

Solipsism Backstage at We Players‘ Macbeth at Fort Point “My darling,” she said at last, are you sure you don’t mind being a mouse for the rest of your life?” “I don’t mind at all” I said. “It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like as long as somebody loves you.” Roald […]

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