Review
Fort Point Theatre Channel made a call for submissions for a new play to serve as a companion piece to “Krapp’s Last Tape.” The result: a performance of Samuel Beckett’s classic with the world premiere of “The Archives” by Skylar Fox.
The dazzling LP “Mess” proves that the band Liars has not half-heartedly made the switch to electronic music.
What about today? Has Russia finally hit bottom and recovered? Is the political economy of vodka a thing of the past?
The books are bleak in that Pierre Michon provides no reassuring, idealistic view of the creative urge. Art leads to no transcendence, no permanent uplifting sentiment. Making poems or making pictures is a rough daily business.
Not many movies try to wring poignancy out of a distraught man standing in a field, shouting his anguish to the sky, while holding two severed limbs.
Whether art can comfortably exist in this thoroughly commercial frame is a question for the ages. Let’s say that whether this show succeeds is firmly in the eye of the beholder.
Simon Schama just can’t stop going on about religion and the extra-special Jewish feel for beauty that has, to his mind, kept Judaism vibrant and intact through the ages.
Adeptly directed by Roger Michell, “Le Week-End” soars because of its glorious leads.
The culture of American fiction is never as neatly defined as books like “MFA vs NYC” make it out to be.
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