Friday, March 20, 2009
The Secret Agenda of Trees
Posted by Mark on Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 9:00 AM
Theater review by Benjamin Sutton
Set amidst the working-class squalor of a nameless rural meat-packing community, Colin McKenna's The Secret Agenda of Trees
is a near perfect play for a collapsing masculinist culture based on
boundless consumption. Put another way: it may not be the art we want,
but it's the art we need. Evading depressive abandon and recuperative
sentimentalism, McKenna makes especially effective use of his
scenario's meat-packing analogies. These characters' lives resemble a
slow, steady progression towards certain annihilation, and their
realizing this only makes things harder.
Read the rest here. The play runs through April 11 at The Wild Project; tickets are $18.
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