Mois : septembre 2014
A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Take for Granted
© Ben Brantley, The New York Times 2014 – © Photo Sara Krulwich/The New York Times.
Everything comes wrapped in silence in “The Valley of Astonishment,” Peter Brook and Marie-Hélène Estienne’s wonder-struck contemplation of the enigma of the human mind, which opened on Thursday night at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center in Brooklyn. A shimmer of stillness seems to surround every word spoken, every gesture made, every note sounded in this essayistic work about extraordinary sensory perceptiveness. What’s created is not exactly a barrier between the audience and the stage, but what might be called a zone of thoughtfulness. An implicit request fills this silence: Think about how you think. Try to feel out, if you can, the way you feel. Read more
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