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"...A
year and a half in the planning and it's gone," muses David
Mealor, a bare week before opening night of 'Translations',
the play he is directing as part of Holden Street Theatre's
'Director's Choice '05 season. 'Translations', the work of
Irish playwright Brian Friels, was selected by Mealor as the
first script he wanted to bring to the stage in his new role
as theatre director.
It's
fashion to play disco drumbeats. It's fashion to play choppy,
syncopated guitars. It's fashion to sing in a pseudo-English
accent, as though the Factory Records scene never ended. It's
fashion to pretend it's still 1984, even though that was the
year in which you were born. Yet Pharaohs aren't being specially
processed by the hype mill just because they're in fashion;
they're also bold, exciting, unique, and really, fantastically,
bloody good...
Canadian
scholar, teacher and writer Laura Penny's book, 'Your Call
Is Important To Us: The Truth About Bullshit' takes on bafflegab
and waffle in all its multitudinous forms. Among her targets
are advertising firms, corporate entities and, most saliently,
the politicians and political climate that allow bullshit
to flourish unchecked. 