"Wellfleet Theater to stage young crash victim’s play" by Joel Brown | Globe Correspondent, May 22, 2013
Marina Keegan, a Wayland native, had just graduated from Yale University and accepted a job at The New Yorker when she died in a car crash in Dennis last year, on the way to her family’s summer home in Wellfleet. She was 22.
Keegan’s writing — including a Yale Daily News essay titled “The Opposite of Loneliness,” which led to a piece for The New York Times DealBook blog — had already attracted enough attention that her death made headlines: in the Globe, in the Times, and across the country....
“Utility Monster” is the story of two New York City 15-year-olds straddling the gulf between idealism and reality. Everything changes for Claude (Ryan Rudewicz) when he discovers that, for the price of his Taco Bell meal, he could provide life-saving nutrition for a child in Africa. He begins to see everything through the philosophy of utilitarianism, which he defines as “when you start thinking about everything in terms of how many starving African children you can save.”
I'm tired of the guilt trip by the corporate pre$$.
You know, the same agenda-pu$hing pre$$ that helped set up the whole $y$tem.
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“‘Utility Monster’ raises the question of responsibility, asking if anything that doesn’t directly benefit people who need help is worth doing. Whether you could possibly value a painting more than a human life....
Globe sure looks like it thinks so, what with the Gardner Art specials and all the rest.
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I didn't see anything about starving Africans in my Globe today, although I haven't read every single inch.
