Culture
“The Brainwashing of My Dad”: Rightwing agitprop’s cult-like effects
April 6, 2016Senko's 90-minute documentary explores the techniques of and effects rightwing media has on listeners/viewers/readers.
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“Six Characters in Search of An Author”: Performing Pirandello’s pirouettes
April 6, 2016Sicilian playwright Luigi Pirandello's iconoclastic play is all the more impressive when one takes into account that its premiere in Rome was way back in 1921.
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Spy parenting 101: Deadly decisions on “The Americans”
April 1, 2016Characters Philip and Elizabeth Jennings are good parents. That is their baseline identity.
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“Film” and “Notfilm”: Playwright Samuel Beckett meets Buster Keaton
April 1, 2016On the face of it, a collaboration between Beckett and Buster Keaton sounds like an unlikely alliance of artists.
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“A Singular They”: Intersex drama explores teenage angst
March 31, 2016Most coming of age stories don't also involve deciding what gender you want to be. That's the dilemma facing the lead character in this play.
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