the Director yanks the Designer's cord :-P

from Gini:

"I went for a walk today and was trying to work on Shakespeare text. Instead, M/S pushed to the fore. I offer you the following (in no particular order - I handwrote them as soon as I came in) prior to our chat:

I started thinking about the 60's. And, although the Paris student demonstrations hadn't happened when the play was written, the Free Speech Movement in Berkeley certainly had (I was there). Then came all the student upheavals and repressions and then the militancy: Paris, Kent State, Minutemen, SDS, the explosion in the brownstone in Manhattan (I know the father of one of the people who died there). Other demonstrations and riots: Watts, Attica, etc.

freedom v repression - somehow linked to - sanity and insanity
freedom of the individual v freedom of society

governing structures, societal structures, fundamentalism

2018: students from all over, held with no legal process:
- crazy, drugged (self or by others), social misfits, shit disturbers,
non-conformists

the value of human life - institutionalize mass murder, purgings

sex as a commodity, an opiate, a freedom, a repression, a degradation (to be "fucked over")

fear & hatred of the "other"

economic repression
social repression
religious repression
creative repression

absolutism - on every side
"the poor will always be with us"
mass mind set

so, this group of asylumed students put on display (the play) to minimize/mock their impact
structure v chaos

intellectuals are dangerous
power is dangerous
attempt to unify groups, cultures, areas dangerous

Between 1789 and 1808 there were incredible about-faces. Not just governments and rulers, but ideologies, beliefs, values, structures (changed the calendar)

seismic, dangerous
this breeds fear, terror
terror, terroism, terrorists (!)

uniformity/non-conformity
fundamentalists/free thinkers
group/individual

Disney v free expression
artificial allegiance v committment
committed ?
calm v hysteria

mind control/out of mind
commmunicate/excommunicate
celebrate/denigrate

re-vol-u-tion
de-vol-u-tion
institution

Okay, so you make sense of all of this - if you can. . . . "