The play’s the thing!(TM)
Melissa dragged me kicking and screaming, and all I got was this intellectually stimulating experience! Went to see a play called Jon without knowing for sure what it was about. Let me tell ya, it was a night at the theater alright! Really engaging work. Directed by Seth Bockley, who adapted it from a short story by MacArthur Fellow George Saunders. I’m a sucker for mis-en-scène - it made critical use of new media, in effect harnessing both attractive and nauseating sights and sounds to propel the story about trendsetter teens that have never left the office building in which they work testing products. They vet video games, wear designer duds, take shots of green soda, and intermittently suffer flashbacks to certain commercials in order to explain their own sensations and emotions. Someone’s been reading some Guy Debord…
