Week 4 Propoganda

This scene in Allen Ginsberg's / Philip Glass' Hydrogen Jukebox is one of the most powerful moments of this American chamber opera.  The silhouetted characters plastered on both stage left and right promote a self-awakening, a realization to the invisible hand that has been keeping them down for far too long. The actors bathed in this uplight is reminiscent of the Obama posters for change in the 2008 presidential election. The image is strikingly profound. It can be seen as silhouetted propoganda for an uprising of the masses to take back what was lost and to gain in the madness much more than was intended by the revolutionaries. I was honestly hoping that the director, Dylan Thomas, would ask the set designer if it were okay for the actors to knock down one side of the wall of boxes to increase the weight of this piece. But then there would not be room left for the final BIG BANG!