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Poetry

Rediscovering Simplicity and Sacredness in Emily Dickinson

March 26, 2019 by admin Leave a Comment

Poetry
Guest Commentary
by Alfred Clemente, Ph.D.

A rekindled love for the work of the literary maestra of Amherst – called forth by a gifted teacher, writer and dedicated curator of literature.

The Black Clown

September 6, 2018 by admin 1 Comment

Cast

Musical, Play, Performance (2018)
Adapted from
Langston Hughes’ poem
by Davóne Tines and
Michael Schachter
Music by Michael Schachter
Directed by Zack Winokur
American Repertory Theater
Loeb Drama Center
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
August 31 – September 23, 2018
Featuring Davóne Tines

An exceedingly well crafted and composed, inventively staged, beautifully sung, and brilliantly choreographed adaptation of the poem by Langston Hughes.

Beowulf

December 11, 2015 by admin Leave a Comment

Book

Play (2015)
based on Seamus Heaney’s translation
Adapted for the stage by
David Gullette
Directed by Benjamin Evett
The Poet’s Theatre
Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center
Cambridge, MA
December 10-20, 2015

A passionately delivered and interestingly conceived theatrical rendition of the Scandinavian epic in a translation by the great contemporary Irish poet.

Wrestling Angels:
Poetic Monologues

June 28, 2015 by admin 1 Comment

Cover

Poems (2011)
by Freddy Frankel
Ibbetson Street Press
Somerville, MA

A collection of short poems based on Biblical and other noteworthy personalities related, in a very general way, to the Jewish experience.

Eugene Onegin

June 7, 2014 by admin Leave a Comment

Tatyana Onegin

Play
based on the poem Eugene Onegin (1833) by Alexander Pushkin
Directed by Rimas Tuminas
Vakhtangov State Academic Theatre of Russia
Cherry Orchard Festival
ArtsEmerson
Cutler Majestic Theater
Boston, MA
June 6-7, 2014

A dramatized version of the poem by Pushkin, with some innovative staging.

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