Friday, February 04, 2011
3 Things You Should Read Before You Attend HEDDATRON
Steppenwolf Theatre Company Blog: "Let’s get this out of the way first: Heddatron is kind of like dramaturg candy. When Jonathan Green (Heddatron’s director and Sideshow’s Artistic Director) approached me about the piece, I couldn’t help but jump at it: how could I say no to spending the next three months reading about Robots, Henrik Ibsen, and the Singularity? It’s been a grand time, and I’ve had the chance to read a lot of really fascinating things so I thought I’d share my reading list: the top three things you should read (or at least skim) before seeing Heddatron!
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What an amazing article. I'm only dissapointed that I don't live in Chicago and I can't see the work that was put into this. "Dramaturg's candy" indeed! I was particularly amused by the Ibsen/Strindburg references. What I love about work like this is that it provides other things to look at (rather like Wikipedia, it instigates a "clicking path"). Not only do I know about this show, and have some great dramaturgical information about it, but I can delve deeper if I so wish. (I have also found Ibsen.net to be an outstanding resource - it has a huge listing of known productions of each of his plays. What a task that must be to upkeep!)
As someone who, before reading this article, knew nothing about a production of "Heddatron" I now feel as if I know...still nothing at all. Okay, perhaps that's not entirely true. I know it involves The Singularity, MAYBE robots and I've pieced enough together to figure out that the play itself likely involves Ibsen and Strindberg. But assuming all of that is true, I still don't know anything, really, about the play itself. Maybe if I lived in Chicago I might be inspired to look further into the production but without any details of the play itself (am I just out of date? Is this like Doll's House or Hamlet that I'm just supposed to recognize Heddatron as piece produced often?), I'm more in the dark than before.
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