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Sheng came to Harvard thinking about concentrating in economics or biology. But after breaking a 4 x 5 camera during a photography class, he felt indebted to the Visual and Environmental Studies Department. Explains Sheng, "I called Chris Killip [head of the VES photography department] and said, 'I broke the glass plate on the camera. But on another note, I've decided to join the VES Department.'" The artist that influenced and continues to influence his work is Nan Goldin, whose famous work, "The Ballad of Sexual Dependency," documents the relationships in her life. Goldin was a visiting professor...
...ensemble effort. We almost welcome the benign and believable sense of normalcy they add in counterpoint to the wild posturing that takes place in nearly every other nook and cranny of the stage area, as designed by Kevin Lair. Lair's ambitious but simple set adds an attractive visual component to the plot. The play itself seems to cry out for the overstuffed trappings of the period and Lair precisely captures the sense of place essential to recreate the mood of the period with his spare settings...
...that power fall to the director, the man or woman who is to bring the playwright's story to life? Is the theater a cousin of literature, where the text retains the right of ultimate authority, or does it exist in a different realm, one where the particulars of visual experience can take precidence over the sacredness of words...
...text, the director has too long been slave to the author. Theater is not literature, he argues, and it should not pay undue homage to the authority of written words. Theater is a unique set of experiences based fundamentally in space rather than letters. As such it has a visual language all its own, a language which cannot be notated ahead of time by an author sitting at a desk. The author is the genesis point of a play in Artaud's vision, if a play is to be written ahead of time at all, but the director...
...direct and inevitable byproduct of time. And unlike artforms such as painting or sculpture which work only with space, both space and time are the fundamental media of theater. Artaud condemns the overemphasis on dialogue in modern theater as a means of conveying narrative, opting instead for a more visual form of storytelling. But at the same time, he would have the playwright be little more than a writer of spoken lines, as would any director who chose to disregard a playwright's stage directions...