WRITINGS
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“The most insightful work on urbanism and transportation since, Jane Jacobs.”
Society
The Interstate Sprawl System
May/June 2008
The Washington Post
Disney’s Trojan Mouse
January 1994
“A most interesting essay.”
– Peter Brook, Director, International Centre of T
heatre Research, on The Meaning of Ecstasy
“These words from this essay ought to be engraved on the walls of every theatre in the land:
If the driving force in theater is its search for spiritual meaning, then it’s natural that one of its fruits is spiritual
experience. Theater is well suited to such pursuits because it is the one art that encompasses all the others
in itself, concentrating the full spectrum of thought and feeling into the power of a unified expression.
Every part of life can be included in its spectacle of music, scenery, song, and dance: Dionysus is not only
the god of wine and comedy, but also the god of tragedy and Lord of Death. The theater may be tawdry and bankrupt,
a stepchild to the movies, a soap box for political scolders and moral libertines, the sanctuary of sofa drama
and hysterical therapy, the most boorish and bourgeois of all artistic institutions; but it is also the chosen
art form of Sophocles, Shakespeare, Goethe, and Yeats.”
– Robert Brustein, Director of American Repertory Theatre, on The Meaning of Ecstasy
Performance
The Meaning of Ecstasy
September 1990
“Simple, straightforward, unmistakably clear.”
– Jacques Barzun, Charles Scribner’s Sons Author & Critic,
on The Meaning of Ecstasy
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