February 2012
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To the Audience Member who Booed at the End of...
Last night I went to see the Roundabout Theatre Company’s current production of John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger, a 1956 play about a narcissistic and angry young man and the web of tortu(r)ous relationships that surround him. Though I often have issues with the acting and direction at Roundabout, I was pleasantly surprised. This is a powerfully acted piece, and one of the only...
“the archive then is something that, through the cultural activity of history,...”
– carolyn steedman, dust: the archive and cultural memory (via karaj)
“It’s so much easier to pass judgment on a man than on an idea.”
– Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead (via unmaskd)
“We’re a special kind of people known as show people
We live in a world of our...”
– (via fyeahbroadway)
It’s a tiring life after a while.
(via mrdavidgordon)
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“the omnipresence of power: not because it has the privilege of consolidating...”
– michel foucault, the history of sexuality, an introduction: volume I (via karaj)
yes, it’s all about power, folks, never forget that
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theatrevstheater:
I saw this at Dance Theatre Workshop last year…meh. The coolest part was that you could go up and be around the incredibly intricate machines they used (after the show was over). I have some creeptastic photos from that night.
Ordinary finds: Dada Manifesto (1916, Hugo Ball) →
i12bent:
“Dada is a new tendency in art. One can tell this from the fact that until now nobody knew anything about it, and tomorrow everyone in Zurich will be talking about it. Dada comes from the dictionary. It is terribly simple. In French it means “hobby horse”. In German it means “good-bye”, “Get off…
“I want to know you moved and breathed in the same world with me.”
– F.Scott Fitzgerald (via mermaidsongs, misswallflower) (via ball-of-wool)
“What looks right, or attractive, in a photograph is often no more than what...”
– And I would argue that this applies to race and gender. (via sophiawallace)
^ Agreed, definitely.
“i could have been more humble—but if i’d been more humble, i wouldn’t have been...”
– hannah wilke, 1985 (via karaj)
“these performing “women” function as dialectical images but they are also the...”
– rebecca schneider, the explicit body in performance (via karaj)
