Far Side of the Moon

Tonight I went to "The Far Side of the Moon" at the American Reportory Theatre on Brattle St... Amazing!!!! The story of two brothers, their woes, the loss of their mother, Phillipe's search for meaning and attempt at defending his dissertation... André's everyday shallowness... all this intertwined with the race to the moon, the Sputnik, Yuri Gagarin, and theme... leit motif of the narcisism of humanity... and man we are all so narcisistic and selfish! Sometimes it's good to watch a good play instead of a lousy movie (especially if with student discount you pay only 12 bucks)... it may even make you think, feel stupid, reflect... those things we never get to do here at school, ha.

I was really impressed by the performance, and by the play itself. I wonder if I can buy it... the book... The stage was relatively simple, with just some sliding panels, a moving mirror-thing, two projectors, a video camera. They did a great job with not much... they used video brilliantly, projecting angles we could not see into the screen and making projections part of the scenery and props the actor used. The actor himself did a great job, really great, and the storylines were amazingly well intertwined... at parts hilarious, at parts awfully, humanely sad... Led Zeppelin and Debussy and original compositions. I loved it. I totally loved it... and I remembered how much I like the theater! (You can really tell I'm no theater critic, right?)

Too bad tomorrow is the last performance and they are already sold out.