.Helen_E_Shaw and vcunningham discuss four shows from the Under the Radar Theatre Festival, which all explore forms of instability: the shakiness of history, of human endeavors, and of time itself.
The show is two girls in a room. One of them has posted something online; she is enraged by a news article about Kylie Jenner being a self-made billionaire, and she has tweeted some homicidal fantasies. Her friend has shown up to persuade her to take the tweets down.Keeping with the theme of internationality, what I loved about it was its language and its diasporic view of what the Internet is.
If I were a less selfish audience member, I would be excited by the way incomprehension is also a part of online discourse. Lee-Jones is deliberately making that point: people watching online conversations play out don’t always understand them, but they weigh in anyway. But I am selfish. I want to be able to understand every line. I want to be able to write it in my little notebook, so I can look at it later!” by Yngvild Aspeli’s French-Norwegian puppet company Plexus Polaire. This one was a.
So, for me, this was a showcase for the body and the voice—particularly how you can achieve a kind of abstraction that’s nonetheless based on representation. That was exciting, and I walked away from it being so impressed by those people. Whereas, conceptually . . . once I realized the drama was all symbolic, I’m like, “O.K.: tree, disappointment, statue.
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