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David Kodeski OBSESSIVE ANTHROPOLOGY.

American Theatre,  May, 2000  by Hayford, Justin

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A solo performer finds inspiration in the mundane lives of others

David Kodeski's sprawling Chicago flat is done up as though a rummage sale were in perpetual swing. He has assembled enough cast-off tchotchkes--snow globes, ashtrays, travel souvenirs, numerous reproductions of Jesus--to give the Salvation Army a run for its money. Pockets of thematically linked detritus document spurts of aesthetic mania. "I'm completely obsessive about things," he explains. "But only for very short bursts of time."

Over the past four years, those bursts have not only ...

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