THE CRITICS
Debra Cash reviews dance and theater for National Public Radio and Boston’s award-winning arts programs on WBUR, the Northeast’s flagship NPR station
Robert E. Neale is a highly-acclaimed scholar, teacher, and creator of magic. Robert taught twenty-four years as Professor of Psychiatry and Religion at Union Theological Seminary in New York. Since leaving Union, he has become a celebrated writer about and creator of magic; his performance ideas and novel illusions are being used by magicians all over the world. He is the author of the scholarly books In Praise of Play, and The Art of Dying.
The Flynn Center for the Performing Arts is considered one of the major performing arts presenters in the Northeast, featuring world-class music, Broadway, theater and dance performances available in only a limited number of major cities in the United States.
Gail Rosenberg is a freelance author and specialist in non-profit public relations, fundraising, and grant writing.
Eric Tetreault is co-creator and owner of the award winning interactive themed theater event the Connecticut Renaissance Faire.
A staple in the lives of New England television audiences for over 20 years, Chronicle has been honored with three Emmy Awards from the Boston/New England Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
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They Say...
Not only the oddest . . . event of the month, but probably the weirdest of the rest of the year.
National Public Radio
Roderick Russell is part of the new wave of innovative magicians. He is among the few who present their craft as challenging theatre provocatively questioning our assumptions.
His compelling magical technique and persona meld with philosophy, politics, aesthetics and both fine and performance arts. The results engage our feelings of amusement, fear and passion; thoughts of wonder, doubt and suspicion; and our concerns about freedom, authority and undue influence. All this is accomplished with a most charming manner that delights us while gently disturbing our lives.
Roderick delivers powerful entertainment in the fullest sense.
Robert E. Neale, author of Magic and Meaning
A very fine-tuned performance! You have pushed our program into new directions.
Aimee Petrin, Programming Manager
Flynn Center for the Performing Arts
...a passionate and articulate practitioner of the art [of sword swallowing].
Gail Rosenberg
Seven Days VT
An old samurai maxim states that ‘A man who has attained mastery of an art reveals it in his every action.’ You are a master of your art!
Eric Tetreault, Owner, CTRF
A bizarre encounter with a man who literally has a taste for the blade. A rare find!
Chronicle
BEHIND THE SCENES
Readers who have seen the show will recognize the title of this section - “They Say” - as a reference to the opening monologue. What readers may not realize is that the opening monologue - entitled Variations on a Theme by Rushkoff - was inspired by a reading of Douglas Rushkoff’s influential book Coercion : Why We Listen to What “They” Say.
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