Reflections on SPT’s Poets Theater by David Buuck
Twelve years ago, in collaboration with New Langton Arts and the (sadly missed) Jon Sims Performing Arts Center, Small Press Traffic helped organize a Poets Theater festival, with several plays and panels in multiple locations around San Francisco. Though initially intended to be a one-time celebration of plays from the 80s and 90s, several younger poets were inspired to re-animate the tradition, and the annual SPT Poets Theater fest was born. Under the ambitious leadership of Elizabeth Treadwell Jackson, and with
Further reflections on Poets Theater
Small Press Traffic's 12th Annual Poets Theater Festival, held this January 18th and 19th at CounterPulse, both continues and refreshes a tradition of poets theater in the Bay Area's literary communities that dates back at least to the Berkeley and San Francisco Renaissances of the 40s and 50s -- with roots in experimental modernist theater, vaudeville, 19th century tableaux, Greek drama, and a sometimes baffling array of other sources. Through the past several years of this often ad hoc and participatory, sometimes confounding,
Time Flies
LESLIE Time flies insanely around, like a mosquito in the night. Moreover: http://www.gabberwocky.5u.com/installation.htm
Sneak peek at TONIGHT’s A Day at the Races by Julie Lythcott-Haims
Getting excited for the first night of Poets Theater 2013! Here's a sneak peek from rehearsals for A Day at the Races written by Julie Lythcott-Haims and directed by Brandon Jackson. See you tonight!
Rapunzel reads the news
Sitting at the window, I repeat to myself: the project is to grapple with my inability to comprehend or speak about my world. From my castle, my ivory tower, my highest, whitest horse, I can read all about it — 87 are dead in Aleppo, 26 in Connecticut— all safely within view, and unreachable. Next to me, a book about a genocide my very own family survived. Somewhere on the horizon, my very own death, at a considered and clinical distance. Far.
Without Surrender, You Are Just a Robot–Abby Crain interviews Jeremy Wade
This post originated as part of (THEOFFCENTER's Dramaturgy In Dance Series). Jeremy Wade is coming to the Bay Area to present his piece FOUNTAIN at CounterPULSE on January 25th and 26th, 2013, followed by a weeklong workshop at Kunst-Stoff Arts from January 28th - February 1st. Abby Crain, a longtime fan of his work, chased him down via Skype while he was in residence at Joshua Tree this past month. She spoke with him about his work and his upcoming
The strength of Hope, my journey: The beginning
Sunrise, one morning in June 1997: Students were readying themselves for school, workers for their jobs, merchants for their businesses in the city, in the markets, peddlers were at their usual occupations, the many unemployed, graduates with or without hope, were looking for work, students were on their way to school, and that's when everything happened, the explosions of heavy weapons that began a civil war that separated the inhabitants of the same nation, families, children from their mothers, fathers,