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- Tony Roberts, Maria Tucci to Perform Selected Shorts: Funny Food Fictions , Hosted by Isiah ... - Playbill
- Oscar Wilde Cock-Cockery And Other Media Fictions - Anorak
- Director’s Fancy Leads to a Tale-Spinning Cat - New York Times
| Posted: 30 Sep 2010 12:16 PM PDT Tony Roberts, Maria Tucci to Perform Selected Shorts: Funny Food Fictions, Hosted by Isiah Sheffer By Thomas Peter Tony Award nominees Tony Roberts and Maria Tucci will read short stories about food in Selected Shorts: Funny Food Fictions, Oct. 16 at 8 PM at Kinsborough Performing Arts Center in Brooklyn. Advertisement  The evening, part of Symphony Space's Selected Shorts series, will be hosted by Symphony Space founder Isiah Sheffer. Selections read will include stories by T. Corraghessan Boyle, M.F.K. Fisher and Milt Gross. Roberts has appeared on Broadway in The Royal Family, Xanadu, Barefoot in the Park (original and revival), Cabaret, The Tale of the Allergist's Wife, Victor/Victoria, Jerome Robbins' Broadway, They're Playing Our Song, Sugar and his Tony-nominated roles in Play It Again, Sam; and How Now, Dow Jones. Tucci's Broadway credits include Mary Stuart, The Night of the Iguana, Requiem for a Heavyweight, The Great White Hope, The Little Foxes, Yerma and The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore. She was Tony-nominated for a revival of The Rose Tattoo. Kinsborough Performing Arts Center is located on the campus of Kinsborough Community College in Brooklyn. Tickets are $25 and are available by calling (718) 368-5596 or by visiting kbcc.cuny.edu. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
| Oscar Wilde Cock-Cockery And Other Media Fictions - Anorak Posted: 24 Sep 2010 01:49 PM PDT
I'll drop William Hague, 49, a line about it after this. (Btw, I do wish The Sun's Kelvin MacKenzie would desist in his weekly persecution of Chris Myers, 25, Mr Hague's former room-mate driver and £30k pa SpAd. In a just world he'd be sharing a room with George Michael) Anyway, it appears I've returned in the nick of time. For today some letters Oscar Wilde wrote to a sexy young male magazine editor in the century before last have been flogged at auction for £33,900 - or nearly £24k more than expected. What spiced them up was the claim that in them Oscar, then about 33, propositioned the Court & Society Review editor – one Alsager Vian, 22 (never heard of him: his ghost must be relishing the posthumous fame). Alas the text of the five missives scarcely lives up to the billing. All of Oscar's letters these days read like Stephen Fry on Twitter – even an illiterate chimney sweep could expect a 'dearest'. 'Will be at home tomorrow afternoon – so glad if you come down for tea,' writes Oscar in one letter – not quite up there with: 'Come over and I'll lick your scrote'. Oscar was passive, incidentally. Oh, didn't you know? Most compromising is Oscar's, 'Come and dine at Pagani's in Portland Street on Friday – 7.30. No dress – just ourselves and a flask of Italian wine – afterwards we will smoke cigarettes and Talk over the Journalistic article – could we go to your rooms, I am so far off, and clubs are difficult to Talk in.' The 'No dress' injunction is not an invitation to turn up nude but merely a sartorial guide; and the preference for Alsager's rooms nothing more than a desire not to be overheard by other possibly commision-hungry hacks. 'I think your number [edition] is excellent, but as usual had to go to S. James' Street to get a copy. Even Grosvenor Place does not get the C&S. Till Thursday night! This is all wrong, isn't it … ' The playful last line is not some coded reference to an illegal sexual proposition but plainly to the unavailability of the magazine. This distinct lack of any sexual content whatsoever has not dissuaded the likes of the Independent and other serious publications from repeating the seller's PR line. I particularly like the Indy's Sept 16 headline: 'For sale: letters from a love-sick Wilde to the object of his affection.' Purest Sylvie Krin. The media too readily interpolates cock-cockery in otherwise bromantic relationships, as the Hague/Myers hotel sleepovers demonstrate. Why, as I write, rumours abound of a roaring musky affair between a famous footballer and a famous male TV personality. And as ever, as the unlikely trustee of cock-cunting integrity, I find myself saying, 'I don't believe it!' Posted: 24th, September 2010 | In: Key Posts, Madame Arcati Comments (11) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
| Director’s Fancy Leads to a Tale-Spinning Cat - New York Times Posted: 30 Sep 2010 02:18 PM PDT  Sara Krulwich/The New York Times Moisés Kaufman with "Puss in Boots" puppets and puppeteers. Now this 46-year-old playwright and director is playing with puppets: fish, fowl, an ogre, rabbits, a cat. And they're singing. Is this the same theater auteur who brought the world "Gross Indecency" (the Wilde play) and the Shepard-inspired "Laramie Project"? "This awakens the child in me," Mr. Kaufman said recently, holding aloft a foam-rubber eel puppet during a break from rehearsal for "Puss in Boots (El Gato Con Botas)," a 1947 opera by the Spanish composer Xavier Montsalvatge. If Mr. Kaufman's inner child is behind the endeavor, he's an ambitious tyke, as Montsalvatge's one-act opera does not typically include a cast of puppeteers alongside the singers. The production, which opens on Saturday at the New Victory Theater, is by Mr. Kaufman's Tectonic Theater Project, Gotham Chamber Opera and the puppetmakers of Blind Summit Theater (a London company last represented in New York by the puppet-child in the Metropolitan Opera's "Madama Butterfly"). A taste for the fanciful is actually not so new for Mr. Kaufman. Last year he lavishly reimagined the fairy-tale collisions of Stephen Sondheim's "Into the Woods" at Kansas City Repertory. And while the three years he spent immersed in Beethoven's music to write and direct "33 Variations" were hardly a lark, the experience whetted his appetite "to be with music in the room, and to keep exploring the narrative power of music." So when Neal Goren, Gotham Chamber Opera's artistic director, suggested that they join forces on Montsalvatge's opera, Mr. Kaufman felt an immediate affinity. "I knew the composer's work, and the story is something I grew up hearing in Venezuela," said Mr. Kaufman, who moved to the United States in 1987. "And the music has a very Spanish flair to it — it's whimsical, and yet it's rough and a little caustic at times. It's a lot about eating and drinking and enjoying the pleasures of the table. So that felt like a summer vacation for me." Deep in rehearsals, "Puss in Boots" didn't look like a vacation for anyone involved. Singers and puppeteers dodged one another on a crowded, whirling stage. At one point Mr. Kaufman got up to act out a crucial pounce for the puppeteer and for Mark Down, the puppet director. "The more violent the cat can be with the mouse, the better," Mr. Kaufman said, clawing at the air. On a break, he explained, "When I started working with puppets, some of my actor friends joked, 'Oh, now you can just get your actors to do what you want.' But actually, with the cat you have three puppeteers and a singer. So the problem is multiplied by four. You have to direct every gesture, every look, every emotion." In short, he said, "It's a lot of hard work to do whimsy." With Tectonic, Mr. Kaufman creates primarily by staging and developing work as it's being written. The playwright Stephen Belber, who collaborated with him on Tectonic's "Laramie Project," said his "sense of silliness" was a crucial buoy in navigating the dark, choppy waters of that documentary piece: "Moisés has this giggle — it's little boy meets little girl meets Whoopi Goldberg." But even when directing another writer's work, Mr. Kaufman likes to throw a wrench into the rehearsal. While directing Rajiv Joseph's "Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo" last year in Los Angeles, Mr. Kaufman concocted a game in which one actor spoke Mr. Joseph's lines as written, while he stood just behind another actor and quietly fed him ad-libs. "It was an exercise to help me crack open the scene, and it did open up the possibilities — it was almost like watching a puppet show," Mr. Joseph recalled. "Moisés always looks at storytelling and theatricality as things to be played with. He wants to bewitch an audience." He will have his chance with "Puss in Boots," in which a poor man's cat wins his master a castle and a princess by spinning elaborate fictions he then cleverly renders true. "The fable is a fascinating form because it's a story that wears its metaphor on its sleeve," Mr. Kaufman said. "Joseph Campbell says that fables talk to us about our core desires, and 'Puss in Boots' speaks to our desires to imagine a better world. This mangy cat revolutionizes his whole world with his imagination." This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
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