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ellenkushnerNo, really, I insist. If you're near NYC, see Liz Duffy Adams' play "Or," if you possibly can. It's about a woman who wants to be a famous writer, and theatre people, and kings with deliciously long hair, and language and gender. See?
Tix are $20 if you turn up 1 hr before the show (and there are still seats.) The NYTimes loved it, and was not wrong to mention Stoppard in the review, I think. If you can't go - or you need encouraging - Ms. Adams has kindly given me permission to print her Prologue
Prologue
Spoken by the actor who plays Nell, in street clothes, intimately to the audience.
Or! Now that’s a very little word
On which to hang an evening’s worth of show
But I will now that little word enlarge
And show a vast unsettled world within
That open o and nosing thrust of r.
Our play will shortly ricochet between
A dense array of seeming opposites:
Spy or poetess, actress or whore
Male or female, straight or gay—or both
Wrong or righteous, treacherous or true
Lust or love, cheap hackney trash or art
Now or then, a distant fervent age
Or some more recent time of freedoms new
The sixteen-sixties, nineteen-sixties, now.
And yet despite all seeming diff’rences
Those ors divide less than they subtly link
And what seem opposite and all at odds
Are in their deepest nature most the same
We all embody opposites within
Or else we’re frankly far too dull to live
And this our wilding world cannot be hemmed
Within a made-up symmetry of sense
That being said, we’ll open up the gate
Unhinge the R and step on through the O
To find our characters, from hist’ry fetched
Although they no doubt would not know themselves
If they were sudden brought into this room
To witness; O blame not our hapless scribe
For that; she pleads a playwright’s hallowed right
To have her way with people and events
Too far long gone for most of you to know
Just as our heroine in her own time
Made free with truth where it might serve her will.
If Aphra could but be with us tonight
We hope she would forgive our trespasses,
While you we hope to solace and seduce
With all our most alluring stratagems.
OK, enough, I must now run and change
O! Fire exits! There and there, all right?
Are all your cell phones off? Yes? Very good.
Compose yourselves for pleasure, if you will.
Cue the lights, let never time stand still.
[See? It's not all that formal, though; here's a scrap from later on:]
APHRA
[....] Lady Davenant is here.
WILLIAM
Who the devil is Lady Davenport?
APHRA
Davenant! Lord Davenant’s widow, manager of the Duke’s Company and the woman who holds my future in the palm of her hand!
WILLIAM
What are you frivoling on about, what about the plot [against the king]?
APHRA
Damn the plot, a production’s at stake! No, I know, I know, but just please be quiet and give me five minutes; if I can save the king’s life, get you a pardon and launch my career it’ll be damned good day’s work.
[And in walks Lady Davenant, with a speech including this:]
O one other thing I won’t have one of those “or” titles, you know what I mean, one of those greedy get-it-all-in titles, “the something something OR what you something,” I don’t care if the great man did it, they take up half the poster and the typesetter charges by the word, make up your mind and pick one, thank you [. . . .] I’ve seen your poetry, you’ve got the spark all right, don’t let anyone tell you otherwise but it don’t do anyone any good if you can’t write “the end” and get on with it[!]"
See? As![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
deliasherman said; written for us!
Tix are $20 if you turn up 1 hr before the show (and there are still seats.) The NYTimes loved it, and was not wrong to mention Stoppard in the review, I think. If you can't go - or you need encouraging - Ms. Adams has kindly given me permission to print her Prologue
Prologue
Spoken by the actor who plays Nell, in street clothes, intimately to the audience.
Or! Now that’s a very little word
On which to hang an evening’s worth of show
But I will now that little word enlarge
And show a vast unsettled world within
That open o and nosing thrust of r.
Our play will shortly ricochet between
A dense array of seeming opposites:
Spy or poetess, actress or whore
Male or female, straight or gay—or both
Wrong or righteous, treacherous or true
Lust or love, cheap hackney trash or art
Now or then, a distant fervent age
Or some more recent time of freedoms new
The sixteen-sixties, nineteen-sixties, now.
And yet despite all seeming diff’rences
Those ors divide less than they subtly link
And what seem opposite and all at odds
Are in their deepest nature most the same
We all embody opposites within
Or else we’re frankly far too dull to live
And this our wilding world cannot be hemmed
Within a made-up symmetry of sense
That being said, we’ll open up the gate
Unhinge the R and step on through the O
To find our characters, from hist’ry fetched
Although they no doubt would not know themselves
If they were sudden brought into this room
To witness; O blame not our hapless scribe
For that; she pleads a playwright’s hallowed right
To have her way with people and events
Too far long gone for most of you to know
Just as our heroine in her own time
Made free with truth where it might serve her will.
If Aphra could but be with us tonight
We hope she would forgive our trespasses,
While you we hope to solace and seduce
With all our most alluring stratagems.
OK, enough, I must now run and change
O! Fire exits! There and there, all right?
Are all your cell phones off? Yes? Very good.
Compose yourselves for pleasure, if you will.
Cue the lights, let never time stand still.
[See? It's not all that formal, though; here's a scrap from later on:]
APHRA
[....] Lady Davenant is here.
WILLIAM
Who the devil is Lady Davenport?
APHRA
Davenant! Lord Davenant’s widow, manager of the Duke’s Company and the woman who holds my future in the palm of her hand!
WILLIAM
What are you frivoling on about, what about the plot [against the king]?
APHRA
Damn the plot, a production’s at stake! No, I know, I know, but just please be quiet and give me five minutes; if I can save the king’s life, get you a pardon and launch my career it’ll be damned good day’s work.
[And in walks Lady Davenant, with a speech including this:]
O one other thing I won’t have one of those “or” titles, you know what I mean, one of those greedy get-it-all-in titles, “the something something OR what you something,” I don’t care if the great man did it, they take up half the poster and the typesetter charges by the word, make up your mind and pick one, thank you [. . . .] I’ve seen your poetry, you’ve got the spark all right, don’t let anyone tell you otherwise but it don’t do anyone any good if you can’t write “the end” and get on with it[!]"
See? As
deliasherman said; written for us!![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
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Date: 2009-12-12 08:11 am (UTC)Within a made-up symmetry of sense"
Could be a good Bordertown epigraph...
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Date: 2009-12-12 08:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-12 02:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-12 03:16 pm (UTC)She had me at
"We all embody opposites within
Or else we’re frankly far too dull to live"
- my beloved Shakespeare teacher, Edward Tayler, was a great one for that sentiment. and the poets who expressed it. He woulda loved this play.
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Date: 2009-12-12 03:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-12 04:02 pm (UTC)I was actually looking at flights and hotels for the 13th on the day that I took a header and cracked the stupid bone in my foot, in order to take a quick trip to your Fair City. Not any more... Hope they put it on again. Somewhere.
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Date: 2009-12-12 06:11 pm (UTC)I think somebody's read Fry, too, perhaps.
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Date: 2009-12-12 09:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-12 09:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-12 10:17 pm (UTC)I hadn't realized that Fry was out of fashion, aside from grumbling about how the Guthrie NEVER EVER does any any more.
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Date: 2009-12-12 11:23 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-12-15 02:42 am (UTC)The doctor did actually return his call.
--He thinks it's a 5 day respiratory flu that's going around. As I think we're on the sixth day since Wednesday, it's clear that no one taught the flu how to count.
--He said, more than once, that if mnemex is feeling better tomorrow, he should not come in.
mnemex assured me he will come in, having a) a mild fever still today and b) less concern about irritating the doctor by showing up than irritating me by giving it a miss.
In addition to other reasons to want him well, I think that I have a copy of Eclipse 3 at or soon arriving at his workplace.
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