Creative Babel.

The history of now really is about life. It's about human behavior.

That's really what it is in its essence.

That's Jason Bartlett talking about his play The History of Now, with Andrea Endris on her YouTube show.

If you ask anyone what life is, the answer is going to be based on their perception and their experience.

And that's what we try to kind of encompass with the history of now.

The History of Now, how poetic, right?

Could it be about how present-day political events are shaping history in real time?

Or ordinary people caught in extraordinary times?

Showing how their choices ripple into the future?

Well, it's none of the above.

One poster I found online said, quote,

When four friends are lost in the silence of the

Holocaust, their stories echo a warning behind the familiar stranger we call the present, unquote.

Still don't get it? In the history of now, Jason Bartlett doesn't just blur the line between

past and present. He demolishes it.

What begins as a historical reflection on one woman's experience during the Holocaust

quickly evolves into something far more urgent, a mirror held up to modern America.

It follows a Holocaust survivor who, after decades of silence, is finally ready to tell her story.

And as she recalls her childhood in Berlin, her memories are intercut with scenes from present-day

America, where Roe v. Wade is overturned, the capital is being attacked, and the foundations

of democracy feel increasingly unstable.

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