Sontag: Reborn

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Editor's Note: This is the first in a series of review roundups for the 2012 Under the Radar Festival.

The late cultural icon Susan Sontag's formative years are the subject of The Builders Association's fascinating Sontag: Reborn, at the Public Theater.

Adapted and performed by Moe Angelos from the first volume of Sontag's journals -- as edited by the writer's son, David Rieff -- the piece covers Sontag's development from a 14-year-old budding intellectual up through the publication of her first novel at the age of 30. Along the way, she tells stories of her first lesbian experience, her unhappy marriage, her years spent studying abroad, her tempestuous relationship with playwright Maria I[...]