Students go Dada over project
In one painting, the black outline of a half–hidden, skirted figure crosses the pink line of a stage as an audience member looks on. Nearby, a series of ghostly, skeletal X-rays hang side by side. Around the corner, a plaster cast of a human head is nestled in a shoe atop some stacked stools. The mysterious and evocative artworks greet visitors en route to the American Repertory Theater’s (A.R.T.) Loeb Drama Center main stage for the world premiere of its newest production, “The Blue Flower.” “I wanted the audience to know that they are entering into a different universe,” said one of the show’s writers, Ruth Bauer, of the installation that has transformed the theater’s hallway and lobby into a mini modern museum. The curious pieces, many created by Harvard undergraduates as well as cast members of “The Blue Flower,” mimic the iconography of the avant-garde musical’s themes of love, friendship, war,...