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...show is that you’re introduced to this person, Anne, and you’re not absolutely certain of who she is,” says director Matthew C. Stone ’11, who is also a Crimson arts comper. “As the play goes on it attaches many different attributes to her, and by the end of it you see this identity that you started out with that’s been completely dissolved...
Thematically, the play presents a plethora of modern issues—genocide, pornography, consumerism—exploring the destabilizing effects of these elements on Anne who is portrayed by multiple actors in different settings...
...People have claimed that this isn’t even a play; it was written without characters, without setting, without any context for the scenes whatsoever. You can literally go through and make anything you want out of them,” Stone explains. “There are two traditional ways of looking at it. The first method is to look at each scene as a distinct world and focus on the discontinuity of each scene and how each one addresses different issues in the modern world,” Stone says. “The other method...
...definition of Anne is expanded over the course of the play until she’s not just a person; she could also be a product, and the play references her multiplicity,” says actor Joe G. Hodgkin ’12, who plays several of the peripheral male characters...
...addition to an absent central character, his play is insistently plotless, focused instead on the fragments of Anne’s identity and the issues that destroyed...