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Epigraph of the Month: Tennessee Williams pays homage to Hart Crane
Tennessee Williams chose these lines as the epigraph for A Streetcar Named Desire: And so it was I entered the broken world To trace the visionary company of love, its voice An instant…
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Letter from Berlin #4 (Suggested Listening) [by Rodney Wilhite]
Reading Kathleen's post, I was stricken by the moment of personal interaction with Anne Tismer, how we expect to maintain a comfortable distance from performers, and how moments when that distance is bridged can…
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Letter from Berlin #4 – This exchange [by Kathleen Heil]
the Volksbühne Berlin during the Sept 2017 action; photo: Paul Zinken/dpa Tino Sehgal's work draws on his training in experimental dance and economics to create what he calls “constructed situations.” Before the start of…
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I’ll Never Ask the Houses [poem by Patricia Carlin]
where I’m going, the bright housesfar from corrupted air.Nowhere you’d risk – everywhere.The difference is death,or maybe it’s justuseless instruction. We love the dead, discredit the living.“The dead.” What is that? I’m a bare…
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Letter from Berlin #3 (Suggested Listening) [by Rodney Wilhite]
Beckett's "Not I" is a piece with which I am not familiar, but as I listened to it I found myself hypnotized as the speech in its urgency seemed to drift into the musical…
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Letter from Berlin #3 – Nicht ich [by Kathleen Heil]
Beckett's "Not I" at the Volksbühne, Berlin; Photo: David Baltzer To the degree that Berlin's culture demands a form of 'passing,' it is in the problematic tendency among those of us who belong to…
