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Where all of my former umbrellas are, I have no idea. They have entered into the nebulous vortex of lost umbrellas??probably someone in the Financial District is enjoying one right now. But I’m not bitter. That’s because I take other people’s umbrellas...
During Surrealism’s heyday, Jean Cocteau argued that the criterion for a true work of Surrealist art should be that the images are “lasting and fresh.” “The Secret Lives of Umbrellas?? would have us question this paradigm...
...dialogue of “The Secret Lives of Umbrellas?? often evoked the banter between Vladimir and Estragon in Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot,” full of rapid-fire exchanges and comic misunderstandings. But where Beckett took on themes like salvation and the human condition, Benjamin’s play sidestepped anything too poignant...
...consciously rejecting any strong, global, unifying factor, and in refusing to humanize its characters, “The Secret Lives of Umbrellas?? made it impossible to empathize with the characters of the play. Effectively, it condemned itself to frivolity. This fact was not exactly a defect—it seemed to be a fundamental characteristic of Benjamin’s vision—but she has still curiously prevented her work from attaining a sense of depth...
...defiance of traditional theater aesthetics, “The Secret Lives of Umbrellas?? took a lot of risks—which on balance was quite admirable, especially for a student-written work. But the play’s spectacle of amusing incoherence was certainly not for everyone. At times the characters even seemed to acknowledge its radical sense of humor, explaining, “Anyone can say anything. You should...