R. Buckminster Fuller: The History (and Mystery) of the Universe
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Opened Jan 14, 2011
Closed Feb 5, 2011
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Does humanity have a chance to survive on Spaceship Earth?
Writer/philosopher/mathematician/geometer/poet/architect/designer/inventor/futurist/environmentalist/sustainability advocate/Renaissance-man
R. Buckminster Fuller explores this question in a dazzling multimedia performance, as embodied by A.R.T. actor Thomas Derrah. Inventor of the geodesic dome, Bucky Fuller was a true visionary, and this play provides an expansive look at his life, ideas, and his belief in individual capacities to reinvent both self and environment. His objective was to put our lives back in our own laps, through "thinking-out-loud" personal testimony that helps ground us within the larger flows of time, place, history, and the Universe. Through philosophical riffs, revealing personal stories, geometrical demonstrations, songs, movement, dance, and vivid projections (including historical photos, footage, home movies, artistic sketches, and theoretical drawings), this production takes the audience on a roller coaster ride of ideas, emotions, and critical paths to either utopia or oblivion.
What are other members saying?
RE:Great man poorly explanined
This play is in the form of a lecture, apparently similar to what Buckminster Fuller apparently did frequently in real life. Unfortunately, although it clearly displays his passion for which he is famous, it does little to explain the ideas nor transfer the passion to the playgoer. If stringing together long polysyllabic phrases of ideas was the playwrights, or perhaps Buckminster Fullers, method of expounding on great ideas, in this case it fails utterly.Buckminster Fullers tombstone says trim tab on it. This is a small rudder like device that helps steer ships or planes. Buckminster Fullers hope was that his actions were similar to a trim tab for spaceship earth. Unfortunately in the play, the rudder appears to be broken.
Reviewed by Mac50
on Sunday, Jan 16th, 2011
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