I’m surprised there aren’t more comments. The audience seemed to be Kid Koala fans and must have loved it. I was interested in the technical part and impressed by the puppeteers and the videographers. Less impressed by the Kid although he had the concept presumably. I thought the story was a little weak. Why does the inventor of the hexabot go for the robot hero?

I enjoyed the film. It is amazing that in 1922 it was possible to operate a movie camera in the extremely cold temperatures. Even today, gear often fails in the arctic and antarctic. I enjoyed the throat singing. I wish there had been more of it during the vocal performance, part of which seemed not to be throat singing. The drum set didn’t add much. The violin may have been a plus but it often couldn’t be heard. I don’t think the vocalists’ gestures and movements on stage were a plus. They just distracted from the film. However, overall, a performance worth seeing.

I passed on this show when I subscribed but bought a ticket when UMS offered a discount. I didn’t expect to be impressed but I was. The women showed many talents: dance, mime, acting, ability to make us laugh and ability to make us feel uncomfortable. Since the show has been performed over 60 times in several North American and European countries, it was certainly time for it to come to Ann Arbor. I wonder if the show has an overall theme and, if so, what it is? I suggest Freedom. I also wonder if 10, 20 50 years from now, the show will be a classic or irrelevant?

It was a truly magnificent and thoroughly enjoyable performance, but I have a suggestion about the subtitles. They added greatly to the enjoyment, but, because I couldn’t see my program in the dark, I never knew the title/composer of each song as the singer began to perform it. Why not precede each song’s text with a display of the title, composer and poet?

I’ve seen three National Theatre of Scotland productions – Black Watch, Prudencia … and now Christmas Carol. They were all unique in concept, venue and staging and were supported by great acting. I look forward to any future productions from this first class, innovative organization.

I do not regret buying a ticket and seeing Antigone. It is a worthwhile experience. That said, this is not a production I like. The translation is too casual, parts of the set (bookcases, faucets) are barely used or not at all, video behind the actors seems mostly unrelated to the action, and the loud vocal music at the very end also seemed out of place. The acting is good (though the actors are VERY hard to hear) as we expect but the text causes them to utter lines that produce laughs when the moment is tragic. Yes, some laughs break the tension appropriately early on, but in the last 10 minutes, no – this is a tragedy.

Very interesting both for the physics of air movement creating a column of ascending air and for the ability of plastic bags to perform ballet. The program warns us that the piece is also about destruction by man, hence the ending. Charlie Chaplin and Marcel Marceau would have had a better ending but still poignant. That is my challenge to Phia Menard. Think again!

An almost unbelievable story masterfully presented. See it!

Thank you UMS for presenting events such as superposition that extend the limits of what we consider art. That said, my critical comments: I attended the Stamps lecture, Saturday Morning Physics, and the Saturday performance. Stephen Rush did a decent, if somewhat colloquial, job of interviewing Ryoji Ikeda. At this interview, I began to sense Ikeda’s clear grasp of fundamental concepts. Saturday morning’s session went well with each of the three interviewees addressing fundamental topics. Ikeda, again, was able in his brief replies to express the content and relationships of important concepts. superposition itself is impressive in its variety, sonic landscape and the massive data flow to at least fourteen, apparently synchronized, two-dimensional displays. However, I didn’t see Ikeda’s clear conceptual thinking, evident in his interviews, in the piece. Instead, it seems to be a sequence of disconnected episodes, each of which, apart from some interesting texts at times, is seemingly meaningless. I wouldn’t attend a similar production in the future, but am glad I saw this one. Nevertheless, please UMS continue bringing us events that challenge us and enrich our experience.

Glad to see this famous play in an excellent production. I was challenged by the need to both watch the actors and read the surtitles. It seems less of a challenge in opera because the words come more slowly.

I enjoyed it more than I expected. In fact I even got into the audience participation. It was great to see how much the audience loved it. Qawwali ideally takes the audience into flight and we nearly accomplished that!

I’ve never seen puppetry like this. The performers are incredibly creative and talented to perform a spell binding show with just one puppet and a table. If they create a new show, I’d love to see it.

Excellent! The best collaboration of live stage acting and scenic projection I have ever seen. I hope they and others continue to innovate in this mixed medium. I would love to see their Magic Flute in Berlin.