Box and Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung :: Minnesota Fringe 2011 :: August 4 - August 14 :: Minneapolis + St. Paul
"A playwright -- unless he is creating escapist romances (an honorable occupation of course) -- has two obligations; first, to make some statement about the condition of 'man' (as it is put) and, second, to make some statement about the nature of the art form with which he is working."
--Edward Albee
Albee's show here works for the second proposition, crafting music with words, voice and personality. The result is art with content that seems always about to be crucially important when they head towards craft, "and going further." Listen to the words as to music, but let them call forth letters, definitions, propositions and issues in a musical pattern -- I think this is how Albee intended the work. (Stunning performance by the entire tiny cast
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