The World is a Stage

A bushido Macbeth, Brechtian epic theater exploring the sinister side of simperingly smiley smalltown America, a Montmartre stage troupe in occupied France employing their little playhouse as a site of passive resistance… The play’s the thing in this series, including works by Lars von Trier, Qiu Jiongjiong, Nagisa Oshima, and other equally formidable talents, and consisting of films located at the intersection of cinema, live theater, and political inquiry, exploring the means by which performance and stagecraft can be used as tools of social critique and commentary, using the closed world under the proscenium as a microcosm of the wider world.