How hundreds of
people in this time of unbridled mind-meld marketing, no barrier to the full-on
soul extraction at work at the behest of the current US gold rush kings:
Google, Amazon, Facebook and Netflix don’t enter this space – Transported –
Beam me away, Scottie.
To the sixteenth
century, where joy is the wide-eyed stare of the confounded actor, in the
clever tricks to bring to earth the blustery Malvolio.
It will not last,
and indeed we are as a civilization measured in individual opportunity, much
advanced from Shakespeare’s time when so many were denied the opportunity to see, to
learn and have their suspicions about the universality of human nature
confirmed in this story.
Yes, so many of
us, in fact the entire citizenry of New York City, more than 8 million people, are free to see these magical stories, these works
of art that cleanse a soul.
For 90 minutes,
the length of the performance. One hundred minutes if you count the pre-theater
immersions.
And then it’s
head-first back into the maw of brain disruption. Buy Apple and only Apple!
Search Google for life-confirming facts. There’s an Amazon robot that will make
your bed! Second season of “The Crown.” Binge!
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