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Article: `REASON' HAMPERED BY LIMITATIONS OF NON-NARRATIVE
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- February 28, 2002
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CAMBRIDGE - Ping Chong has spent his career uniting styles that
shouldn't be as disparate as they are, such as Eastern and Western
modes of performance art, theatrical and cinematic ways of telling
and illustrating a story.
It's natural, then, that his latest work, "Reason," coauthored
with Michael Rohd, continues his theatrically holistic pursuit of
common ground between the right brain and the left - reason and
faith, thought and dream, intellectual alienation and the need for
emotional connection.
In its world premiere at the Market Theater, "Reason" is a 90-
minute pursuit that feels (as long as we're dealing with opposites)
invigorating and enervating, challenging and facile, fresh and ...