I insist I am not biased, just because I worked on the translation.Dan Safer is one of those people I'm really glad I met. Despite his rockstar persona, over a tall cup of tea I learned he was extremely thoughtful, generous and perceptive.
To tell the truth I wasn't sure I fully embraced his production of Mikuni Yanaihara's The Blue Bird, because it seemed like the non-stop ADD break-neck game-show-like antics of catchy dances, song/screaming and theatrical nonsequitors were more gimmick than could be held together by the structure and actual meat of the play. And I'm not sure if I was convinced otherwise -- however in the last 15 minutes of the play, with a surprisingly simple but beautiful transformation of the space with the music and the video and the images, and the sequence that followed, he caught that bird and made it fully, unapologetically, poignantly his own. Not sure how Yanaihara felt since she went to see it 2 weeks ago, but I felt fully tricked and not half-way indignant about it.
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