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Circus Oz is not a reinvention of the big top, a la Cirque du Soleil. It is more of a traditional circus updated for modern times.
Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, dance, film, and theater that’s coming up this week.
French writer Philippe Jaccottet’s ever-questioning poetic analyses of haunting ephemeral perceptions are carried on with such scruple and sincerity that, for his European peers, he has become the model of literary integrity.
If George Clooney can rev up our righteous indignation decrying the barbarities of Joe McCarthy, why on earth couldn’t he become eloquent when it comes to talking about fighting to keep Hitler’s mitts off Michelangelo?
As fiction, “Trieste” is almost entirely a dense tapestry of thinking, remembering, agonizing and raging.
“The working relationship is based on the mutual feeling that all three of us have the same understanding of the purpose of the theatre – to present plays that create a cathartic experience for the spectator, which might open his eyes and his heart to a new consciousness.”
“There is a struggle in love in the best of circumstances, and when on top of the daily challenges there are divisions of culture or society or simply of invented categories – well, that does make it all the harder.”
“Music just comes, you know? You’re harvesting potatoes, and something happens and you have to put it immediately on paper.”
“Witness Uganda” is a quintessential American musical — a work of cultural tourism that condemns cultural tourism.
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