On Kharms and Wilson in L.A.

Myron Meisel has been tracking the work of enfant terrible Robert Wilson in L.A. since the late 1970s. Says Meisel, Wilson's recent staging of "The Old Woman" -- adapted from the writings of Soviet dissident Daniil Kharms, and starring Willem Dafoe and Mikhail Baryshnikov, presented by UCLA's Center for the Art of Performance -- was Wilson at his best. Meisel explains why.

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