Not Yet Diagnosed (Nervous) 1918
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Opened Apr 2, 2005
Closed May 21, 2005
0hr. 55min.
WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Not Yet Diagnosed (Nervous) 1918 concerns the effects of the extreme shell shock suffered by WWI veterans following their service. Set in an allied trench during 1918 a small group of American soldiers wake to find themselves abandoned by everyone on the battlefield, including the Germans. On this desolate landscape everyone from the Army Photographic Corps specialist to the loneliest infantry soldier tries to piece together what may have happened during the night. Were they left behind? Is the war over? Are they already home? Is there anybody out there?
Box Office Hours: Box Office opens 1/2 hour before showtime.
Group Sales Number (20+): 212-807-9300
Appropriate For Ages: 13 and Up
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Beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti commented on Francisco de Goya's depictions of the bloody Peninsular War between Spain and Portugal in one of his most famous poems:
In Goya's greatest scenes we seem to see
the people of the world
exactly at the moment when
they first attained the title of
'suffering humanity'
The Axis Company's latest experimental piece is a less violent but still brutal depiction of war. Not Yet Diagnosed (Nervous) 1918 takes place in what appears to be the memories of shell-shocked World War I soldiers who constantly re-live the minutes before their platoon is threatened with a chemical bombing. It is a "portrait" in the truest sense of the word, taking place in a sing[...]