The Arts in New York City

Back to back theatrical performances = a tired Zareen
Last week, going to see Hotel Cassiopeia one night then Elektra the next was fun. I felt like a cultured New Yorker who did that every week of course. However, having seen both, one after the other, it was like watching two opposite ends of […]

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Okay, so the first half of this is going to be about Le Nozze di Figaro which I have unfortunately neglected to write about until this very moment. I really do enjoy the opera. You sit there in the seats and you are welcomed into an eperience that you are unable to have at home […]

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I thought of the performance for a while and came to a thought. Hotel Cassiopeia reminded me of the “A Series of Unfortunate Events” books by Lemony Snicket that I read once upon a time. Just like the books, Hotel Cassiopeia was disorganized and disoriented. The two works have much ambiguity in them, especially at […]

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So, the mystery continues. I don’t get much of it. It seems like mostly everyone agrees that Cornell’s life was a box of mysteries. In class, I didn’t even know what the heck to feel when writing about the box with things about King of Bavaria. So, my expectations were fulfillled. I fell into a […]

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Late doesn’t even describe the day I am writing my reviews on Hotel Cassiopeia and Electra. However, I have been spending the weekend catching up on lost sleep after seeing two performances in a row.
Hotel Cassiopeia. I liked it. A lot. First I’d like to comment on the performance space. The theatre at BAM was […]

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After a grueling 5 hour run-around in the city, I arrived at BAM (first one there, last one to be noticed). I had no idea what to expect from this play, other than the little theater in which it was performed was a little (understatement) run down. During the five hours I was running around […]

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Ok, so I have a few bones to pick with this play and I feel kind of bad about it because everyone else liked it. Firstly, I didn’t really like the space. Unlike BAM, the seat were crunched together to tightly that if the stage were often times being blocked by people’s heads. […]

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After attending the event at the BAM, I realized that sometimes things don’t have to make complete sense to get your attention. I felt like the mysterious and unusual aspects of the performance left most of us puzzled, but at the same time aroused more interest in Joseph Cornell’s life and his work. For example, […]

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I can definitely say that BAM was an incredibly unique experience. I still need some more clarification about some of the scenes; as I was watching the show, I was trying to connect the scenes and wasn’t as successful as I would have liked. One thing I didn’t like was the set; it didn’t […]

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Upon walking into BAM I felt like I was walking into a time capsule. The old walls with the brick exposed to the decaying columns in the theater set the atmosphere for an “interesting” time.
I was very skeptical at first at this production because it incorporated many different elements of art (film, acting and some […]

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