The Stage is a Dangerous Machine

 Trypsin has tapped a nerve on American theatre
 Danger is a word often linked with his sets
 Physical Danger – falling objects, injury to actors
 Artistic Danger – not aesthetic to the audience, make them feel uncomfortable
 Received MFA in 1984 from NYU
 “New Freedom” – post modern style
 Mixture of cotemporary themes combined with historic
 “Organic” – natural, not breaking the rules
 More important to observe the shapes and forms of the objects
 “…there is a sense of scale, space, and verticality.” Pg. 207
 Scale
 Space – Genet’s The Serecus – a desert on the stage and suspended net above to represent the land of the dead
 Verticality
 Steel – The Electrification of the Soviet Union – a flexible metal wall to distort perception
 Trypsin’s first film – Dr. Ramirez
 Deals with madness, city life, and urban environment
 Films require careful space management and the film was first produced in black and white
 The Stage is a Dangerous Machine – everything has to be done very carefully and precisely for it to not explode on you and function properly