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Julius Ferraro

The Radical Linguistics of Mac Wellman

"...how words get in the way of actually understanding one another."
August 21, 2016
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Sports, Monsters, and the Unprecedented Event

The beings in O Monsters may or may not be human. They function according to rules and laws that I’m not sure we fully grasp.
April 23, 2016
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Choking on Hope

Sam Tower speaks in long, seamless sentences about developing a fantasy world for performance.
January 29, 2016
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The Creeping Threat of Time

Our relationship with time, and empty time in particular, is more antagonistic than it has ever been.
December 21, 2015
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Disorientation

Four short pieces, though they differ wildly in tone, form, humor, movement, and medium, use deliberately counterintuitive elements to evoke mystery, suspense, and even confusion.
November 22, 2015
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Chopin’s Sickly Hands

Chopin Without Piano uses music in its dramatic application to reveal the way cultural revolutionaries are treated as cultural capital by appropriative governments.
November 2, 2015
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The City Breathes Together

Terzopoulos’s Antigone begins at the point of exhaustion, with a populace worn to the nub by war.
October 18, 2015
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