Word: aromarama
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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ALOT OF Harvard writers are, well, if not trend-makers, then at least trend-breakers, and William Rubenstein is no exception. His original "stagefilm," Aromarama: For Motion Sickness certainly transcends conventional definitions of what makes good theater. In fact, one leaves the show wondering what makes it theater...
Judging from the playbill, Aromarama is a pastiche of slides and sound satirizing box-office biggies from The Guns of Navarone to The Godfather, strung together by skits parodying disaster films. But the idea of L.A. smothered by 2000 feet of waste just doesn't make it, nor does the last-ditch seduction scene of a photographer on the eve of the city's destruction: "Please photograph me. I mean, I know we're not going to have time to develop...
...format of Aromarama--a joke here, some slides there--just doesn't hang together. The production is a confusing forum for Rubenstein's dilettantish fancies. It's a good thing his photographic forte is the centerpiece...