Press
"The conversation between past and present is immediate and captivating." MAGIC BUS REVIEW, SF Bay Guardian
"Antenna Theater excels at taking theater off the stage and putting it in everyday places." SF Weekly
"Antenna Theater excels at taking theater off the stage and putting it in everyday places." SF Weekly
"Fanciful, sexy and astonishing" San Francisco Chronicle
"mad stuff and possibly addictive" Independent, London
Below are articles relating to Artistic Director Chris Hardman and the theater in general. For press coverage of specific productions, please go to the 'antenna 1980/' section of the website, where you can download PDF files covering past work.
Opening Night in Outer Space: Is Chris Hardman sabotaging the American theater, or is he saving it? By Steve Erickson, Esquire Magazine, March 1986
You've just found yourself standing in a place where you've never been. You have a name you've never known and you're involved with a girl you've never seen. You're thinking things you've never thought in a voice you've never heard...
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The Walkman Of Alcatraz: Antenna finds a wavelength in the bay Area, By Robert Hurwitt, San Francisco Chronicle, August 1987
A RETURNING visitor to the massive cellhouse atop Alcatraz Island might wonder If somebody had turned down the volume on reality. The place looks the same: The paint Is chipped and peeling on the heavy concrete walls and bars of the four tiers of cells that loom over the broad corridors; the halls are full of tourists of every age and nationality. But there is no sound...
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Walkmanology, by Chris Hardman, the Drama Review, MIT, winter 1983
The walkman is the backbone of a new kind of theatrical experience. I bought my first walkman stereo cassette player just before embarking on Antenna's 1980 European tour of Vacuum. I bought it to replace listening to airplane muzak. I also hoped it would amuse during queue-ups and fill the pompous silences that engulf museums and cathedrals. It performed these tricks miraculously. While others were draped in reverence, bewilderment, or boredom, I was in rapture combining Wagner with Koln's cathedral and baroque trumpets with Parisian streets. I inspected Europe while privately-electronically-stereophonically listening to its musical heritage. I also began to contemplate the theatrical ramifications of this latest weapon in the entertainment arsenal...
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Hardmanology: Chris Hardman, the inventor of Walkmanology, is being hailed as the reigning enfant terrible of American theatre. by Robert Hurwitt, San Francisco Chronicle, November 1985
YOU NEVER KNOW QUITE WHAT TO expect next from Chris Hardman. His theatre pieces can be as minimalist as a set of flat plywood sculptures whose story evolves as they are moved from place to place over a period of days—or as extravagant as entire specially created walk-through environments explored by hundreds of audience members who, guided by tape-recorded instructions, become part of the show...