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The Medium (1993-1996)
Conceived and Directed by Anne Bogart
Created and Performed by SITI Company
The development of The Medium was made possible in part by the generous support of Arts International, the AT&T Foundation, and the Japan - U.S. Friendship Commission.
Directors Note:
I began thinking about the nature of theater and how it will survive in a world where the very nature of entertainment is constantly being redefined. Long a fan of media philosopher Marshall McLuhan, I decided to use his insights to create a theater piece about who we are becoming vis-a-vis the radical developments in technology that surround us. McLuhan spent his entire life exploring and criticizing our methods of communication. Towards the end of this life, he suffered a series of strokes and, with cruel irony, lost his own ability to communicate through speech.
-- Anne Bogart |
