Arts & Entertainment
David Greenspan, The Myopia: An Epic Burlesque of Tragic Proportions
David Greenspan, The Myopia: An Epic Burlesque of Tragic Proportions
Friday – Sunday, December 2-4
(Friday and Saturday 8 p.m., Sunday 2 p.m.)
Hepburn Teaching Theater, Goodhart Hall
In this celebrated one-man show, Obie-winning actor and visionary Guggenheim-winning playwright David Greenspan creates a dazzling and disorienting work that according to the New York Times is “part splashy Disney musical crossed with a Greek tragedy and a kitchen-sink drama, or an evening of Samuel Beckett plays as staged by Florenz Ziegfeld.”
With only a chair and a curtain, Greenspan portrays 22 characters including President Warren G. Harding; Febus, who has been trying to write this musical about Harding for most of his life; Koreen, who had been previously hidden away from the world in a gigantic tower (a la Rapunzel) by her controlling mother Yetti; Febus’s son Barclay, and others. Anchored by the Raconteur, the audience is guided through scenes at a frenetic pace and is hurtled from place to place: a fairy-tale landscape, the smoky back rooms of a hotel in Chicago in 1920, and more.
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“The truism that theater is a place for collective make-believe has never seemed more true than at “The Myopia,” David Greenspan’s madcap, mind-bending odyssey into the poetics of the stage.” —Charles Ishwerwood, The New York Times