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A man sets out on an ordinary business trip to Valparaiso, Indiana. It turns out to be a mock-heroic journey toward identity and transcendence.
This is Don DeLillo's second play, and it is funny, sharp, and deep-reaching. Its characters tend to have needs and desires shaped by the forces of broadcast technology.
This is the way we talk to each other today. This is the way we tell each other things, in public, before listening millions, that we don't dare to say privately.
Nothing is allowed to be unseen. Nothing remains unsaid. And everything melts repeatedly into something else, as if driven by the finger on the TV remote.
This is also a play that makes obsessive poetry out of the language of routine airline announcements and the flow of endless information.
Valparaiso has been performed by the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and by the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago.
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Diane Costa
reviewed Valparaiso on December 30, 2020
Valparaiso
"You are here to unfurl your crime across the satellite skies."
Don DeLillo, Valparaiso
A small two-act play that examines our media culture, exhibitionism, and banality. It feels like we've entered a reality show that never seems to reach its destination. There are parts of this that seem brilliant and parts, unfortunately, that fall a bit flat. I'm a big DeLillo fan and particularly love his fiction. His plays, play I guess, just not as hard. Like one chord, strummed over and over.
One of my best friends saw this when it opened in Cambridge back in 1999. It would be interesting to see it performed, but I'm not sure if seeing it live would make it better. Perhaps, but only because the whole play is about performance. Its power is derived from being performed.
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