…intended to activate the audience’s critical intelligence— but here the effect is intermittent, competing with an absorption in the more traditional pleasures of Fitzgerald’s narrative. The alternation between alienation and absorption, however, appropriately thematizes crucial…

…As Jay Gatsby — his actual name — in the 1974 film, Robert Redford had sky-blue eyes. Other film stars such as Warner Baxter (1926) and Alan Ladd (1949) also portrayed Gatsby as a broad-shouldered,…

…always is, and that’s the way it’ll always be, whether the counterculture migrates to Avenue C, the Lower East Side, Williamsburg, or DUMBO. COLLINS: Manhattan is always going to have this gravity. The fact that…

…Radar Festival in January 2013. GATZ performed at REDCAT in Los Angeles, December 2012. THE SELECT (THE SUN ALSO RISES) performed at the Dublin Theatre Festival in Ireland, Culturgest in Lisbon and at the McCarter…

…at the Actors’ Playhouse in the West Village. And isn’t that a pair on one of those pointedly distracted guys in “Total Fictional Lie,” the unslick performance piece at Performance Space 122 in the East…

by Alexis Soloski In his autobiography, Benjamin Franklin, Philadelphia’s favorite son, lists the 13 virtues that will lead to “moral perfection”—moderation, temperance, and cleanliness among them. Immoderate, intemperate, and frequently dirty, the Philadelphia Live Arts…

…enthusiasm for ‘Gatz’ remains palpable today as he describes the unusual effect of the piece’s length: “Because it’s a durational performance, you start to live it a little bit. It creates an emotional and physical…

…concern for cause or effect. A flicker of fire will make the 33-year-old Benjy suddenly recall a moment three decades before, for example, and Faulkner rarely alerts us to his chronological shifts. ERS’s production may…

…make interpretations and make choices about them. It puts a personal stamp on whatever material you’re working with. RG: Our use of film in Total Fictional Lie is different from our previous uses of the…

…all mixed together. It was gradual; a spatial, temporal and psychic process, unfolding through the transitional rupture and recommencement that acculturation demands of its travelers. Oh-so-slowly I came into this city, in bits and fragments…