Without following the words, it would be nearly impossible to have any idea what was going on in this non-narrative but intensely text-focused work.
The attempt to tie together the work’s many thematic strands by enacting onstage what Hearne’s program note called “a new corporation, powered by quasi-religious fervor,” was confusing — though maybe things were clearer in the original, outdoor conception.
The central pairing of Penn and Bezos, the two pioneers — their vast differences, their essential similarities — would probably have been a more than sufficient subject here.
To what extent are Bezos’s manipulative doublespeak and high-minded invocations of empowerment through selling a break with Penn’s colonial promises?
To what degree are they merely a continuation of what were sour lies to begin with?
Persons:
—, Ashley, ”, there’s, Penn, Bezos