Month: May 2017

“A Third Gender–Beautiful Youths in Japanese Prints”– Japan Society, New York City ( March 10- June 11, 2017)

Written by diana on May 26, 2017. Posted in Art. 2 Comments

The notion of gender fluidity is the essence of this Japan Society exhibit of woodblock prints. The show challenges modern notions that male and female are obvious either-or identities.

“A Doll’s House Part 2”–Knocking on the Door

Written by diana on May 19, 2017. Posted in Theater: plays and musicals. Leave a Comment

A door slams. The viewer is stunned. Nora makes the shocking decision to leave her husband and three young children. That is where A Doll’s House, the iconic 1879 play by Ibsen, leaves off. Now the young playwright, Lucas Hnath, has continued Nora’s story in this intriguing Tony-nominated play asking us to imagine her life fifteen years later. Hnath's A Doll's House Part 2, opens with a knock on that door. Nora is back.

The Handmaid’s Tale–In Service of Democracy?

Written by diana on May 14, 2017. Posted in movie reviews, Television reviews. 1 Comment

The Handmaid’s Tale, based upon the psychological award-winning 1985 sci-fi thriller by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, is the Hulu adaptation of the dystopian Republic of Gilead, a fascist autocracy resulting from a religious coup, a war focused mainly on women. Within the borders of what was formerly the United States of America, residents in The Handmaid’s Tale are segregated along strict racial, sexual, and class lines with each social group is confined to a regimented behavioral code. Code infractions are punishable by torture or death. No one in Gilead has any autonomy,...

The Circle– A Cautionary Tale

Written by diana on May 7, 2017. Posted in movie reviews. 2 Comments

[David Spiselman is guest blogger for this review and author of CypherGhost, Book 7 of the Spies Lie series, an Amazon bestseller, under his pen name D.S. Kane]. The Circle, based upon the 2013 bestselling novel by Dave Eggers, is a flawed movie but an important one. The Circle is the first movie to explore the balance between openness and privacy of technology in a way that delivers an indecisive conclusion for its viewers. It’s a polemic against technology and the Silicon Valley lifestyle, startup companies and how easy it is to assume easy answers to difficult questions. You can draw...

Month: May 2017

“A Third Gender–Beautiful Youths in Japanese Prints”– Japan Society, New York City ( March 10- June 11, 2017)

“A Doll’s House Part 2”–Knocking on the Door

The Handmaid’s Tale–In Service of Democracy?

The Circle– A Cautionary Tale

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