Laurie Simmons is half an artist half an writer and actor in the development of plays inlayed with themes and ideas. The most well known of which is “The Music of Regret” a 3 part piece that tells numerous ideas and emotions. I find theater to be a bit ordinary when it comes to art, not that it’s a bad medium just that most of the ideas and meanings, themes, of most plays have been done. But Laurie Simmons only uses the medium to fully express her feelings and thoughts on time, and emotion by acting out various situations in humorous acts mostly played by hand puppets that she and a friend control. By having hand puppets in the act instead of people I take away the feeling that the situations she is depicting are childlike and not import the world around us. That most people should not be worried about trivial things in the world while wars and other global atrocities are happening. While theater and film is where Laurie Simmons is currently at, she started out in photography taking pictures of numerous things that depicted American life in a nut shell. I find her pieces to be reflective of American culture.
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