Artist Profile: Shannon Sindelar by Gary Winter
I had gone to the Ontological-Hysteric Theater to see Universal Robots (2007), inspired by Karel Capek's 1920 play, R.U.R. It was the first play I ever read as a young and impressionable sci-fi geek. I hadn't heard of the company 31 Down, or of Shannon Sindelar, but I was happy someone was deconstructing Capek. It was an exciting introduction to Shannon's aesthetic. Like The Wooster Group (and I don't mean in an imit…