The World Is Round
Opening Night: April 17, 2014
Closing: April 30, 2014
Theater: BAM Fishman Space
Confused by what is real and what is not, Rose climbs a mountain looking for an answer. Armed with a blue chair and a host of songs, Rose climbs to the top, but what she finds is not at all what she expected. Through a rocking live score, aerial dance, and acrobatic choreography, The World is Round shoots us through a kaleidoscope of Rose’s dreams, fears, and ambitions.
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April 21, 2014
In her 1934 lecture Plays, Gertrude Stein wondered, “What is the use of telling a story since there are so many and everybody knows so many.” You might ask the same question, gently, of Ripe Time’s The World Is Round, a tender and sassy adaptation of Stein’s opaque children’s book at the Brooklyn Academy of Music Fisher Theater. Stein published The World Is Round in the late 1930s, with playful, wholesome illustrations by Clement Hurd. In language that resembles a high-modernist Shel Silverstein, Stein’s story centers on a girl named Rose, which is something of a Steinian inside-joke: “Rose was her name, and would she have been rose if her name had not been Rose.”
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