August 15, 2014 · Speculation
I know this thing is doomed. Katie knows it too, though we don’t say it out loud during our afternoon rehearsals in that sweatbox of a studio space in Los Feliz. Β Michael doesn’t know, which is somehow worse. Or maybe he does. The heat in LA is biblical, relentless. Beckett. Happy Days. A woman buried […]
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August 3, 2014 · FalseArt
So there’s this thing from 1964 floating around YouTube, Philip Saville’s production of Jean Paul Sartre’s No ExitΒ (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
Here’s a human, here’s a beach, here’s a poem about desire that refuses to behave itself. Figure it out. ο»Ώο»Ώ 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. Whether saying […]
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July 27, 2014 · Industries
You’ve got these three women. Dread, Horror, and Alarm. The Graeae, those primordial hags who share one fucking eye between them, passing it back and forth like it’s the last spliff at the end of the world. And they’re not tucked away in some theater where the already converted stumble in with their smug pretensions […]
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July 21, 2014 · Collusion
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
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
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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