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THE EIGHT-DAY WEEK
Preview by Alex Kuyscinski
August 16, 1995

Does Mike Eisner want to run for President? And what about his Mickey Mouse fetish? Unconscious Motives of the Motion Picture Industry, Part 1, a play by Richard Foreman, opens at the Ontological Theater. "It's about this woman Agatha who is surreptitiously filmed all the time by these film crews, and they make movies out of her life," said director Robert Cucuzza. "She becomes this underground movie star and doesn't know it. The she finds out and, in the end..."

Preview by Randy Gener
August 22, 1995

Theater is good but film is evil in Robert Cucuzza's ambitious theatricalization of Richard Foreman's unpublished 1986 screenplay. Earth is gripped by a frenzy of filming and being filmed, as amateur crews ambush passersby with home movie cameras. In this futuristic twilight world, the film eye is like a vampire–it sucks up one's life force, draining people like Agatha (the Wooster Group's Anna Köhler) of their very souls. When legendary director X hires her for his next movie, she soon learns she's already a cult star in many films secretly shot and screened for private audiences, all of whom are eagerly waiting for her to show up in the premiere of all premieres.