God is a Verb Written by Gavin Broady Directed by Chad Lindsey Hook & Eye Theater, The Actors Fund Art Center, NYC November 4-November 21, 2015
Gavin Broady and the Hook and Eye Theater company’s outstanding new play God is a Verb invites audiences to step out of the box and into the geodesic dome. This bold, visually and intellectually exciting production revolves around quirky theorist, designer, and inventor R. Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983), but it is assertively not, as the program reminds us, a biographical piece. Instead, billed as an absurdist comedy, it takes place within its subject's mind, focusing on his decades-long World Game Project but skillfully interweaving the personal and the political, the individual and the global, throughout its 100 compelling minutes.
The arrival of new World Game Project member Ida (Hannah Hartmann) provides entry into the world of Fuller, always referred to only as the Professor and played in turn...
Gavin Broady and the Hook and Eye Theater company’s outstanding new play God is a Verb invites audiences to step out of the box and into the geodesic dome. This bold, visually and intellectually exciting production revolves around quirky theorist, designer, and inventor R. Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983), but it is assertively not, as the program reminds us, a biographical piece. Instead, billed as an absurdist comedy, it takes place within its subject's mind, focusing on his decades-long World Game Project but skillfully interweaving the personal and the political, the individual and the global, throughout its 100 compelling minutes.
The arrival of new World Game Project member Ida (Hannah Hartmann) provides entry into the world of Fuller, always referred to only as the Professor and played in turn...
- 11/11/2015
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