THE POEM


Stéphane Mallarmé

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A Hazardous Prediction Generator was developed by Rohan Hejmadi, an actor in the production (and an NPL Producing Fellow!). Check it out here: Hazardous Prediction Generator


These reviews were written, as an experiment, in advance of the existence of the performance, as the formulation for the piece was underway. The speculation here was predictive: how might a critical response to the piece, written in advance of its rendering, influence how it turned out? What resulted was a kind of Mallarméan joke.

The reviews were written by the dramaturg of the production, Jessica Rizzo. Like the poem, they all have 707 words.