Jess Barbagallo on the Public Theater's Under the Radar Festival
A scene from Rich Kids: A History of Shopping Malls in Tehran. Javaad Alipoor, Parivash Akbarzadeh. Photo: Peter Dibdin. BEFORE SITTING DOWN AT MY DESK for the inaugural evening of the Public Theater’s digital edition of its annual Under the Radar Festival, I scroll through my phone, looking at costumed marauders storming the Capitol Building. The pictures depict smiling Vikings, Confederate and Revolutionary war soldiers, Captain America as a paratrooper holding a straw broom. Is he a warlock, or a street-sweeper? There are enough mixed metaphors for heroism to make your head explode, and...
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