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TIXE, a chashama arts space at 113 W 42nd Street, presents
another Butane Group/WestWell Production
THE LONELINESS OF NOAM CHOMSKY (a performance
I wonder if this production is related to any of these:
http://www.mit.edu/~saleem/ivory/ch6.htm Like any popular intellectual, Chomsky is the subject of myths, gossip and storytelling, although in his case the source of such stories even includes poems ("Old Man Chomsky") and even several plays, which are fascinating events in themselves. In 1991 Daniel Brooks[7] and Guillermo Verdecchia[8] published a play which was inspired by Noam Chomsky's (and Edward Herman's) "language and analysis", called The Noam Chomsky Lectures[9]. It had been performed for the first time as part of the Buddies in Bad Times Rhubard! Festival at the Annex Theatre in Toronto, in February 1990, and was then expanded for the World Stage Festival in July of 1990; the text that became the book is based upon a version presented from March 12-32 at the Backspace, Theatre Passe Muraille. Chomsky himself commented on it, suggesting that "Maybe a new genre is in the making", while the Socialist Worker described the text as "an anti-imperialist primer" and Theatrum stated that "it reaffirms the theatre as a place of dissent". These reviews suggest that when Chomsky's work is appropriated artistically it can have beyond the pale of linguistics and politics, and into the world of literature and theatre. Another work was undertaken by the Groupe de Creation Theatrale Mecanique Generale in Montreal, called "Chomsky, quelques bruits et la danse de Saint-Guy: Derives hallucinatoires d'une activiste". This play, never published, is the comical story of gangsters who kidnap Chomsky but are unable to find anyone willing to pay the ransom (!). It was developed by Luc Dansereau and performed by Estelle Clareton, Michele Dansereau, Michel Cote and Luc Dansereau from the 28th of April until the 2nd of May 1998.