What is the point of literature?
We live in a complex world, and what it requires — imagination, a willingness to listen, to take in new information — sits at the heart of the finest literature.
Anxiety and Cell Phones
Sarah Ruhl creatively tackles the two themes that seem to define this generation’s way of living. Anxiety and cell phones. Ruhl successfully constructs a dynamic between our fear of dying, our reliance on technology, and their association with anxiety. The audience ventures into an avant-garde satire created purely off Jean’s inability to disconnect from technology and admit the truth.
