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...thing remained constant: the success of the show was almost entirely contingent upon Benjamin??s sense of humor. If one found it unappealing, nothing else would carry the performance: not the plot, not the theater-going experience, nothing...
...Benjamin??s absurdist brand of humor was supplemented by recurring images present throughout the play in the actors’ costumes (designed by Gul N. Dogusan) and in the set (designed by Khadija Z. Carroll...
...casting the show was appropriately unique. While some actors came from the Common Casting process, some were drawn from other sources. Alasdair R. Wilkins ’10 heard about the show through his participation in an improvisational troupe, the Immediate Gratification Players. Like Guha, Wilkins was drawn to Benjamin??s monologues, which “are just awesome to say.” Reflecting on some of his own dialogue, Wilkins puts it this way: “You don’t get to say that usually, at least not without getting funny looks...
Paul Valéry is cited at the beginning of Walter Benjamin??s “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” as saying, “we must expect great innovations to transform the entire technique of the arts, thereby affecting artistic invention itself and perhaps even bringing about an amazing change in our very notion of art.” The fulcrum of this exhibition, which spans the whole period of the techniques of modern flat printmaking, is the exposition of the vice and the virtue of this new technology...