The Beauty of Baudelaire: The Poet as Alternative Lawgiver
Roger Pearson
“Artist and Poet, Etel Adnan, one of the leading intellectual figures of the day.”
The Sea Voyage, Philadelphia Artist Collective Fringe 2019
In the Light and the Darkness of the Self and of the Other
Where are we? where? There is a where, because we are, stubbornly, and have been, and who are we, if not you and me?
Where are we? Out of History, of his or her story, and back into it, our in space and back to Earth, our of the womb, and then into dust, who are we?
Where is where, where the terror, the love, the pain? Where the hatred? Where your life, and mine?
There
by Adnan is a poem performed by the Hot House artists at Wilma Theater. Actors dress in prismatic colors, the conception of light and shadows form of human emotions, and interactions, even cutting an onion. The poetic forms change with the position of light and color, groups or pairs, still or moving arrangements on stage.
The Wilma stage was in the shape of a half pipe, projections of graffiti colored the vertical wall when we felt a chaos of fleeing prisoners, their mood appeared to be escaping this prison as they slid down from running up the ramp. Audience members sat on either side, facing one another from across scene, the spotlight moved by stagehands for change of scene.
Spring 2019 Classic Theater
Jacobean Tragedy in the Philadelphia Artist Collective The theatre company presented classic repertoire in the round. So charged by trends in historical plays that it seemed more relevant in our time and critique on modern politics.
A play by John Ford from the 17th century tragedy An ending with murder and childhood romance. A complicated inflection on the love between brother and sister. Continuous jest by clowning, and scheming in the Shakespearean mode against their fate.
Tis’ Pity She’s A Whore
Lust and Devotion
Scene 1, he confesses to his confidante, Friar Bonaventura, of his love for his sister.
Jacobean Fashion
Neoclassical style comedy by the Berdetto and Soranzo in the play. They’re way to admire the other. Similarly, they’re also the amusement of others, and hilarious commentary on public taste.
Innocence
The characters, Giovanni and Annabella are divided by worldly matters in class, religion, and family. A controversial play about incest.
Tis’ Pity She’s A Whore
Nonsense in the life in a world dictated by men. A play written by John Ford, 1626.
PHILADELPHIA ARTIST COLLECTIVE
The Philadelphia Fringe Festival 2019
Let Me Die
Opera Philadelphia presents: Joseph Keckler
Cartography
Mapping the Refugee Experience
Christopher Myers and Kaneeza Schaal
The Sea Voyage
Philadelphia Artist Collective
Starring Andre Criss in a castor pirates & Nathan Foley a barbarian cast away.
Dream Girl
Idiopathic Radiculopathy Consortium
The Sea Voyage Written by John Fletcher & Phillip Massinger
The White Devil (2017)
A melodrama starring Dan Hodge & Lexie Baverman
Inspired by the film noire, the murder mystery, and a blood bath in the end captures the heightened affects of this distinguishable cast members, and direction by Damon Bonetti.
