currently i am reading timbuktu – nice book. willy just died, i hope to finish second half of it this evening.
i would like to make a remark on your presentation lately during
chips and dips. for you the book represents american consumer society and you reflect that by showing amongst others the american flag.
so far i don’t experience that part of american society that much.
america can have an as mystical status as timbuktu in a sense: the land of many possibilities and many broken dreams. also in other books auster clearly talks about american society without making it into a caricature or stereotype.

i think it would be good for the play to keep stereotypes on american society out. clearly tarkovsky shows the run down atmosphere of soviet urban environments, but he does not stereotype them either, more using them for their eerynes.

Are we not all a bit America tired?
Are you not afraid that in stead of dealing with more essential questions, everybody will link the play with the coming elections in the States?
Or is it the aim to do so?
Is it possible that this association, especially since the elections are just after the dates of the presentation, kills some much more essential layers that the whole project has.
I am afraid it will associate only with the USA, in stead of raising more uniform and basic questions.

I am curious to know what the designer of the had in mind when creating the designs for the posters.
What message was aimed to transmit by this design?
Why the concept of a photo collage of dogs, homeless people, and paris hilton?
why overlaying the collage with colours?
why those colours?
If I look from a distance I see no more as the title in 3 parts on a coloured background. Except the giant letters there is not anything that appeals to me in such a way, that I want to have a look closer by.
If never the less I am looking at it from closer by. I see a dog, a homeless person asking for money, and I see Paris Hilton with her tiny dog.
I am asking myself: what is the relation between the 3 elements an the story of mr Bones?
The poster displays no more as illustrations of the elements that are used in the project, they do nog give any hint, or add value to what direction this goes.
where the colour fields stand for is a mystery for me
To my opinion a good poster touches the core of the project and displays the essence of what it communicates in two ways: -at first sight and -on a different level when looked at from close by.
I miss both elements in this design.

“Even as I breathe my last, I’m choking on it. Useless bits of knowledge, unwanted memories, dandelion fluff; I don’t need them, do I? Not where I’m going I don’t, and yet there they are, marching through my brain like long-lost brethren. That’s American know-how for you. It keeps coming at you, and every minute there’s new junk to push out the old junk. You’d think we would have caught on by now, wised up to the tricks they pull on us, but people can’t get enough of it. They cheer, they wave flags, they hire marching bands. Yes, yes, wondrous things, miraculous things, machines to stagger the imagination, but let us not forget, no, let us not forget that we are not alone in this world. Know-how knows no borders, and when you think of the bounty that pours in from across the seas, it knocks you down a peg or two and puts you in your place. I don’t just mean obvious things like turkeys from Turkey or chili from Chile. I also mean pants from France. I mean pain from Spain and pity from Italy and checks from Czechoslovakia and fleece from Greece. Patriotism has its role, but in the long run it’s a sentiment best kept under wraps. Yes, we Yanks have given the world the zipper and the Zippo, not to speak of zip-a-dee doo-dah and Zeppo Marx, but we’re also responsible for the H-bomb and the hula hoop. It all balances out in the end, doesn’t it? Just when you think you’re top gun, you wind up ‘as bottom dog. And I don’t mean you, Mr. Bones. Dog as metaphor, if you catch my drift, dog as emblem of the downtrodden, and you’re no trope, my boy, you’re as real as they come.”