The modern-day soldier (a dot-commer, a Renaissance magician with a cell phone) constructs an online theater of memory.
In addition, some of his most impressive pieces are not here, most notably "The Theater of Memory," which centers on an enormous recumbent tree (roots and all) whose branches, hung with lanterns and bells, reach toward the inchoate static of a large video screen.
Ms. Rylance, who trained in London at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, has followed her stepfather's example as an actor-producer, starring in acclaimed London stagings of "Bash: Latterday Plays" by Neil LaBute and "Romeo and Juliet" for her own Theater of Memory, created in 2007.
The Scottish-born Mr. Dillon, 60, who has also studied linguistics, art, acoustics, computer sound technology and more, describes "Nine Rivers" as "a mythos of imagined waters, of fairies and snake-gods, a melancholy of flow, a requiem for poisoned rivers, an odyssey, a theater of memory".
Her four-member company, the Human Future Dance Corps, will move about the stage, dressing rooms, hallways and bathrooms to create a theater of memory, as four restless characters try to unravel the mysterious disappearance of a man who carries a basket of purple confetti.
Her four-member company, named the Human Future Dance Corps, will move about the stage, dressing rooms, hallways and bathrooms to create a theater of memory, as four restless characters try to unravel the mysterious disappearance of a man who carries a basket of purple confetti.
He hints at this unknowingly when he writes in his memoir: "The older we get, it seems, the more wondrous becomes the theater of our memory.
When Morty Met John had one other Morty event to offer: a performance, on Sunday afternoon at the Miller Theater, of his "Triadic Memories" for solo piano, that study in memory and its disorientation composed in 1981, two years before SQ2.
The rise of the modern theater, and speculations upon reality in relation to happenings in the mind, are quite separate phenomena, but, arguably, a sense of the theater as a place of memory, of illusions projected as realities, and of experience provided the best "thought experiment" for dealing with the paradoxes of mentation.
Audrey Young, 89, who was a singer-actress in the 1940s and donated $5 million to the UCLA Hammer Museum in Westwood to create the Billy Wilder Theater in memory of her late husband, died June 1 in Los Angeles.
"One of the reasons I like to work in the theater is that theater not only dignifies the idea of memory but also it's an art form that calls on the cultural memory".
