Experiencing Einstein On The Beach

And living to tell the tale. Here’s my review for DanceTabs.

And a short excerpt:

In other words, one was primed for an intense theatrical experience. So much has been said and written about Einstein on the Beach – that it is like “space travel,” or like watching clouds, or “mystica,l” and dreamlike. In the BAM program Robert Wilson tells the story of sitting next to Arthur Miller at a performance and having the playwright turn to him and say, “you know, I don’t get it.” To which Wilson replies, in typical Wilsonian fashion, “you know, I don’t get it either.”