No theatrical limits
About 35 minutes into the two-hour production of “Notes from Underground” at the Yale Repertory Theatre on Saturday night, a group of audience members left the theater. Throughout the production, which Woodruff wrote and co-adapted from Fyodor Dostoevsky’s eponymous novel, groups continued to leave, one person stepping over a seat right beside Woodruff, who was sitting audience-left.
Woodruff said he had no reaction to audience members who choose to leave.
“It’s not my job,” he said. “I’m not the viewer. They are the viewer. Everybody makes their own choices. It’s...
Today's YDN presents us with profound contrasts, to wit:
"fifteen second of silence. fifteen sections of absolute stillness. Fifteen seconds of brilliantly detailed action/movement/choreography. Fifteen seconds of purposeless, random, futile, chaotic action. water. One beautiful gesture. . NO MIME."
And
"Upon his arrival at Antigua, Ridley became the youngest American to row, solo and unassisted, across the Atlantic Ocean — a transatlantic journey he completed to raise $500,000 for melanoma research at the Yale Cancer Center."
A Yale education is running North of 200 large; spend your time wisely.