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Definitely Maybe and CAVS Giant Art Party

James David Morgan wrote this post at 11:18 am on February 3rd, 2009.

Definitely Maybe

Definitely Maybe, a novel by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky, was adapted for the toy theater by John Bell, Larissa Harris, and Jessica Rylan, with special thanks to Slava Gerovitch. Definitely Maybe questions the limits of scientific knowledge and discovery in the modern world from the perspective of a handful of Soviet scientists of the 1970s who are all on the verge of important breakthroughs. The mysterious and often surreal ways in which they are all prevented from advancing their work turn out to be the effects the Homeostatic Universe, a vast, undefined force of Nature that insists on maintaining creation-wide entropy. Definitely Maybe poses questions about the limits of modern knowledge and the ecological effects of modern society through a series of fantastic, comic, and spectacular tableaux on a miniature toy theater stage representing a Soviet-era apartment building.

Don your rabbit skins, and rev up your appetite for Eastern European treats for the next performance of Definitely Maybe, taking place at MIT’s Center for Advanced Visual Studies annual Giant Art Party.

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