Theatrical bait and switch drives this intriguing, infuriating play
This review will be brief, not because there's so little to say but because there's so little to say that won't be a spoiler forChen's stories tend to explore the art of artifice in creative enterprise, with a particular focus on the immorality and dishonesty found in the worlds of art, propaganda, and journalism. His storytelling merges naturalism with metatheatrics, revealing the deception behind what appears to be authentic.
Neither is anything else in this play. This includes Bob and Joyce, and contemporary Chinese artist Wang Min whose thoughtful reflections about the commodifying of another's pain and repression in one's art occupies the next scene. Nor is the discussion between two friends of a deceased dissident artist that reinforces the notion that there is no such thing as absolute truth in art or life, just personal truth based on perception, interpretation, and vantage point.
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