'Death' brings literary experience to Moore
They made something out of nothing. What exactly it was they made out of "Death and the Ploughman," was, at best, unclear. The piece, authored by Johannes von Saaz in 1401 and recently staged in a new translation by the SITI Company of New York, presents core questions surrounding death in a didactic dialogue. The performance oozed with spastic, Martha Graham-inspired movement based on medieval diptychs. Or so the director, Anne Bogart, claims. But nonetheless, they made something out of nothing.