“Impossible theater”
A giant melting clock, right out of Dali’s painting “The Persistence of Memory,” sets the stage for “Once Five Years Pass,” a play by Federico García Lorca and translated by director Gary Jaffe ’10. This image becomes the play’s dominant theme, as Jaffe brings this disturbing, confusing and intriguing world to life.
Working off of the play’s subtitle, “A Legend of Time in Three Acts,” Jaffe uses an icon of timelessness that recalls Lorca and Dali’s artistic and personal relationship. However, while the time at which Lorca was writing is quite different from our own, the event of the...
