The Seasons of Love
The author of the play was a man full of vision for musical theater. An American Tony Award-winning composer and playwright, Jonathan Larson lived in New York and authored musical plays like the famous Rent and Tick, Tick…BOOM! These plays talk about serious issues like addiction, multiculturalism, homophobia, and the AIDS epidemic. His artistic goal was to combine the concepts of Generation X and the MTV Generation in his works. The mission was accomplished in a way by his magnum opus, Rent, which gained the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and won four Tony Awards.
The author, Jonathan Larson, is considered to be a Post-Modernist. He is a man who embraced the thought of going beyond not just the traditional, but with the concept of modernism as well. He is man who thought that nothing is impossible in this world (manifested by his being innovative and creative in his thoughts and actions) and that he can do unlimitedly, even including reality. He believed that reality, in fact, is not just accepting change as an inevitable idea; but is constructed; therefore, all comprehensible worldviews are oppressive, in this case, reality. Thus, it should be deconstructed; as deconstructionism is the progressive pulverization of reality.
