Review: It's Time to Check in for "Airport and the Strange Package"
Airport and the Strange Package Written by Sean King Directed by William Roudebush Presented by Great Cannonball Productions at Gene Frankel Theatre 24 Bond Street, Manhattan, NYC August 7-25, 2024 L to R: John Daniel Meehan, Michael Kishon, and Kyle McIlhon. Photo credit: Florence Rossiello It would be difficult to find people who enjoy what the protagonist of Sean King's new satirical play Airport and the Strange Package describes as the multi-hour humiliation inflicted on travelers before they get on a flight. One of the questions that Airport and the Strange Package asks is that of why we acquiesce. In the tradition of writers such as Franz Kafka and Joseph Heller, this very funny production presents the individual caught in the gears of absurd and dehumanizing institutional machinery; and, more particularly, it examines the way in which security theater–and the acceptance of it–functions as a gateway to ever-increasing/evolving surveillance and Foucauldian discipline. In a ni...