The Art of Summer – ‘Starring the Kitchen
By: Charles Isherwood
This article talks about the performance in creating a meal, and that there is an art to nearly everything, and as such it can be considered a performance. An example of this in everyday life would have to be the everyday commuting of people in the city. It is like clockwork, the huge steams of people rush the subways and buses from 7am to 12pm, a lull and it picks right back up where it started for the second act at 4pm to 10pm. Then a lull but the lulls shouldn’t really be called such since they are more of a second rate act then a lull. Since the show is never over here in the city. There is always someone up, someone doing something, someone needing to get somewhere. The artfulness in this is the finesse that one acquires after having being part of the theater for a while. The quick step, the leap over a puddle, the rush in to the closing door subway, the following of the flow of people and the aggressive break through an on coming crowd. All of this takes experience to get under one’s belt and once acquire there is an art. There is an art in this ocean of people, crashing into each other and flowing, all existing at once together. I must note the silly title and its reference to The Beauty and The Beast, especially since it is what I first thought when reading the article, without seeing the title.
