been reading
i've read some amazing pieces in the past couple weeks.
I started with The Maids and Deathwatch, Genet's first plays with a very interesting forward by Sartre. Both plays worked nicely with my current thoughts on class struggle and the upcoming premiere of A Night of Innocent Games, a play I wrote inspired by August Strindberg's Miss Julie (more info at www.livewirechicago.com). Genet is a poet. His words dance and the action of the play projects like a dream before his readers eyes. Read anything by him and you will understand.
Henry VIII by willy shake was next on the bill. The lack of war and heroics in this history were replaced by commentary on the corruption of religion in state affairs. Brilliant. I am about a fourth of the way through reading all his plays and hope to rework them all one by one when I am finished. A life of dreams.
Yesterday I finished Naomi Ragen's Women's Minyan. My cousin in North Carolina got to see the American premiere at Duke University and after she told me about it, I went onto Amazon and ordered myself a copy. The story of an ultra-Orthodox woman married to an abusive Rabbi from better stock. One day she has enough; walks out on her husband and 12 children. After two years, she returns to see her children with a court order in hand, but comes up against a group of woman who have full knowledge of the fundamental world they live in and are hiding the kids from this woman they feel has tarnished their place in the Jewish community and gone against the God they put their faith in. She must convince these women that what has happened to her is unjust and it is only by doing this that she can ever see her children again. Everyone should see this play.
CHANA: If a woman is only a womb, then why did God torture her with intellegence, understanding, creativity, wisdom? Why didn't He make her ant-like, without the consciousness to raise her head and examine her role as a beast of burden?
I started with The Maids and Deathwatch, Genet's first plays with a very interesting forward by Sartre. Both plays worked nicely with my current thoughts on class struggle and the upcoming premiere of A Night of Innocent Games, a play I wrote inspired by August Strindberg's Miss Julie (more info at www.livewirechicago.com). Genet is a poet. His words dance and the action of the play projects like a dream before his readers eyes. Read anything by him and you will understand.
Henry VIII by willy shake was next on the bill. The lack of war and heroics in this history were replaced by commentary on the corruption of religion in state affairs. Brilliant. I am about a fourth of the way through reading all his plays and hope to rework them all one by one when I am finished. A life of dreams.
Yesterday I finished Naomi Ragen's Women's Minyan. My cousin in North Carolina got to see the American premiere at Duke University and after she told me about it, I went onto Amazon and ordered myself a copy. The story of an ultra-Orthodox woman married to an abusive Rabbi from better stock. One day she has enough; walks out on her husband and 12 children. After two years, she returns to see her children with a court order in hand, but comes up against a group of woman who have full knowledge of the fundamental world they live in and are hiding the kids from this woman they feel has tarnished their place in the Jewish community and gone against the God they put their faith in. She must convince these women that what has happened to her is unjust and it is only by doing this that she can ever see her children again. Everyone should see this play.
CHANA: If a woman is only a womb, then why did God torture her with intellegence, understanding, creativity, wisdom? Why didn't He make her ant-like, without the consciousness to raise her head and examine her role as a beast of burden?
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