Buckminster Fuller, dead for 28 years, gets rave reviews

The Globe reviews the one man show at the ART Theater in Cambridge:

Thomas Derrah so persuasively and entertainingly channels the eccentric polymath of the title that this one-man show at the ART, written and directed by D.W. Jacobs, comes across as a mind-stretching marriage of "The Last Lecture’’ and "Mark Twain Tonight!’’

Whether he is simply sitting in a high-backed chair, standing at a table and manipulating geometric shapes to illustrate a point, or bounding about set designer David Lee Cuthbert’s circular, cobalt-blue platform — which, fittingly enough, suggests a swirling cosmos — Derrah conveys Fuller’s perpetual excitement in the workings of the universe and his own remarkable mind.

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