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A Chinese Meal of a Play |
| Section: THE ARTS / THEATER |
| Author: Herb Greer |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 4/1/1989 |
| Size: 2,213 Words, 12,712 Characters |
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One of the great Puritan curses on the arts and entertainment is the glum necessity of making them useful or uplifting, an extension of some middle-class self-improvement program. It follows that if something shallow, trivial, or fatuous becomes very popular, the success must be justified in terms of culture, given the robes of these metaphysical spooks which haunt the lecture rooms of university arts departments, and are eventually displayed in the literary or coffee-table sections of chic bookshops. Almost anything can be made into a cultural totem, and often is: Marilyn Monroe, for instance, and subway graffiti have become the objects of solemn attention from people who should have better things to do with their time.
Mark Of The Philistine
The honest declaration "I know wha...
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...nspiracy whose goal is a painless evening in the theater. Providing such an evening in a city as full of pain as Manhattan is a useful accomplishment, particularly when it is managed without the sort of nauseating sententiousness with which "issues" tend to be handled in so-called serious American drama (cf. M. Butterfly). Richard Greenberg merits all the applause he gets for this. Well done!
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