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July 25, 2007
OH. YES.
the rude mechs' stage version of get your war on is coming to finland.
FUCK YEAH.
i'm going in on Sat 13 Oct. come along.
(reviews below)
"A history lesson that sprays scorn liberally (in both senses)...a slick production...devilishly deadpan actors...in the vein of of the slacker comedies of Mike Judge [and] the satire of Jon Stewart" - The New York Times
"One of the smartest and funniest plays I've seen in a long time. Go out and buy a ticket right now." - CurtainUp.com
"contains some of the funniest ridicule of a president and his policies I've ever heard on a stage...a hilarious grasp of absurdity...both retro and devilishly au courant...the live-theater equivalent of a wildfire" - The Washington Post
“Rarely has political theatre so enmeshed the sardonic and the sincere...Rees’ comics, faultlessly realized by the cast and director Shawn Sides, are antic, paranoiac, and trenchant.” - The Village Voice
“a gleeful retrospective of Rees’s work...with a wry humor that manages to feel both fresh and pointed.” - The New Yorker
"delivers some of the most cogent and hilarious criticism of six years of the war on terror available in any entertainment medium today" - Show Business Weekly
"Get Your War On is in the motherfucking house, and it is glorious. I laughed my ass off, but maybe only to keep from crying and tearing chunks of my hair out." - The Philadelphia Weekly
"The show was fucking hilarious, but five years and two days after 9/11 and nearly four years into Iraq, I kind of cried, too." - Philadelphia City Paper
"fast-paced and ingeniously choreographed laugh-a-second romp...a healthy release of nearly incessant laughter. (There’s just one word to express the audience response on the night I saw the play: howling.) - Gothamist.com
"Director Shawn Sides choreographs the interplay among the projected images — important dates, bits of clip art, silly graphics — with a giddy precision that would make Busby Berkeley proud. This frenetic, faux-primitive approach is both a plausible equivalent to and a sly continuation of Mr. Rees's clenched-jaw minimalism." - The New York Sun
"fiercely literate...satirical, ironic, and generally pissed-off" - The Washington City Paper
"Inspired...quick-witted...no-holds-barred, genuinely pissed-off theater" - DCist.com
" a 70-minute brilliant and sardonic blitz" - The Austin American-Statesman
"a liberation of one's political soul in a cleansing explosion of laughter" - The Austin Chronicle
"A performance not to be missed!" - The Daily Texan
"a tightly wound, high-precision performance of political-comic-strip hilarity!" - Austinist.com
"it strikes sparks to ignite the beaten-down, dark and dormant liberal-radical left that has been licking its paws too fucking long!" - The Austin Chronicle
"Liberals are such immature, repugnant people...The Taxpayers probably got boned again...Oh, these whacko liberal theatre groups and their hateful hijnks!" - choice comments from NewsBusters (Exposing and Combating Liberal Media Bias)
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July 11, 2007
nostalgie
found this bourdieu classic today while looking for, well, it. felt like pilfering and sharing: sort of like a pirate jesus.
it maps what people (a french 70's cross-section) drank, ate, listened to, watched, drove, etc, mapped on high-low overall capital (vertical axis), with predominantly cultural capital on the left (where you find academics and such), and predominantly economic capital (aka parvenu schmucks) to the right.
love it.
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