Don DeLillo's Valparaiso will be staged in Philadelphia by Theatre Exile from May 5 through May 23.
Valparaiso tracks the physical and spiritual journey of Michael Majeski who sets out on a routine business trip to Valparaiso, Indiana only to become the center of a media frenzy after he gets on a wrong plane and winds up in Valparaiso, Chile.
Via the fantastic Don DeLillo's America. You know, if you're into him.
That's odd. I picked up Baudrillard's America yesterday to thumb through it and see how it aged (haven't read it in about 15 years). I would be inclined to say 'not well' but I didn't actually give it that much time. One passage I feel across was this: "One of America's specific problems is fame and glory, partly on account of its extreme rarity these days, but also because of its extreme vulgarization. 'In the future, everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes' (Andy Warhol). And it is true. Take, for example, the man who got on the wrong plane and found himself cart off to Auckland, New Zealand, instead of Oakland, near San Francisco. This event made him the hero of the day. He was interviewed everywhere, and they are making a film of him."
Reading that more closely inclines me to revisit my thinking, but critical analysis is a devalued process in the cut and paste world. DeLillo would appreciate that sentiment, right? Just doing my part.
Posted by: miss representation | May 02, 2004 at 10:15 AM