Jennie Richee (Or Eating Jalooka Fruit Before It's Ripe) (review)
2003; Johns Hopkins University Press; Volume: 55; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1353/tj.2003.0143
ISSN1086-332X
Autores Tópico(s)Art, Politics, and Modernism
ResumoGrainy film footage of a hurricane rising, precisely-traced drawings of colored botanica, sausage-like puppets that pass for internal organs strewn across a war zone—so imagined is the iconography of self-taught Chicago-based artist Henry Darger in Ridge Theater's production of Jennie Richee (or Eating Jalooka Fruit Before It's Ripe). From Bill Morrison's filmwork, documenting weather conditions (the atmospheric mundane) in their extreme, to Laurie Olinder's stunning projections on scrims that shift from opaque to transparent, and finally, to Pilar Limosner's faithfully rendered costumes, the lush visual life of Jennie Richee delivers wallop. The sheer sensory thrill of the display, deepened by Bob McGrath's multi- leveled, platform staging, is immediate and oddly invigorating, given the grim vision embedded in Darger's work.
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