Topic: Charles Mee
Though his nonnarrative text-assemblages borrow from far and wide-from the Internet to overheard conversations-the Mee mind always thrums underneath in a somehow recognizable, rather deliberate cadence. Indirectly inspired by Robert Rauschenberg's postmodernist art, bobrauschenbergamerica pages through the scrapbook of the All-American ...
Who would have thought that Charles L. Mee, the cut-and-paste playwright known for such scathingly grim works as Orestes 2.0, would have a warm and cuddly side? Emotionally scarred from painful divorces, neither one is eager to become involved again. At ...
So the Exuberant-Itinerant school of theater-making-which is the best just-coined shorthand I've got to describe the tack Michael Rohd has taken with Full Circle at Woolly Mammoth-was in this case probably less an ambitious gamble than a necessary gambit. Mee's ...
The tiny Onyx Theatre has been outfitted with a killer sound system for Trojan Women 2.0, an updated adaptation of the Euripides tragedy by playwright Charles Mee. These booms and bangs might make your fillings hum, if not induce PTSD, and ...
Mee's enchanting isle exists not off the coast of Long Island but in the multimedia sensorium of the high-tech 3LD Art & Technology Center. Fire Island resembles a Robert Altman film as enacted by the Living Theatre. Characteristic of Mee, the dialogue ...
Review: Charles Mee Re-Examines Greek Tragedy in His Version of Euripides' `Iphigenia'Director Tina Landau knows how to do bold.Her take on Charles Mee's "Iphigenia 2.0" is aggressive, in-your-face theatrical, a startling, ambitious re-examination of the Euripides classic done ...
You'd think director Jos? Zayas were taking his final exam at the College of Avant-Garde Theatrics, so relentlessly does he pile on the postmodern tricks for his production of Charles L. Mee's Orestes 2.0. Mee, egalitarian in his satirical ...