The New York Times: In New York, Broadway hits its winter lull in January, as Off Broadway and beyond burst into activity. If most of the tourists have gone home after the holidays, many of the visiting theater artists have arrived from all over, for the annual festivals that draw a tantalizing breadth of new work.
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When there are so many musicals on Broadway, with a lot of advertising going into them, I think plays often go under the radar with most of the populus. Personally, I don’t know enough about them, something I am working to improve upon. I had no idea that so many festivals occurred during January, with so many new works as well. What surprised me the most was the number of puppet shows. Come to think of it, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a puppet show that was not geared for young audiences. I would be interested to see how the stories translate with the audience through puppetry. I wonder how the meaning changes with puppetry versus actors. Are audiences more able to connect with the story because the puppets are not humans, or does that provide a barrier? On the other hand, it could have no effect on the audience’s ability to connect because of the psychology of puppets, that is that your mind very quickly starts to accept that these puppets are real.
I love hearing about new works, and I only wish that I could jet off to New York to see them. This article provided a good list of some of the new shows being performed and a nice comprehensive abstract about each. The one that interests me the most is perhaps the adaptation of Chekhov’s Classic “Uncle Vanya.” As someone who has studied “Uncle Vanya” in a few different classes, I think that seeing it in a new perspective through this adaptation would be very fascinating. Additionally “The Antiquities” sounds of great interest to me. According to the article the play tells the history of the “Late Human Age” through “nonorganic beings” who succeed humankind. According to the article it starts in 1816 when Mary Shelley first told her ghost story and then jumps through time to 2240. Overall it is supposed to examine themes of what it means to be human and whether or not they’ve caused their own destruction.
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