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- English
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Bone Songs
About this book
“Bone Songs is a series of love poems, inspired by 33 years of marriage . . . The sonata-style material, which evokes Rumi, Thornton Wilder and James Joyce without ever seeming referential, is elegiac, furious and rhapsodic by turns—true theatrical poetry.”—David C. Nichols, Los Angeles Times
“To describe André’s contribution [as a theatre artist] gets into something which is enormously intangible. His greatest accomplishments are really in the realm of human insight and psychological truth.”—Wallace Shawn
Bone Songs is a meditation on the journey of marriage and the meaning of one’s long life, by acclaimed avant-garde theatre director André Gregory. Loosely based on Solomon’s Song of Songs, it takes the shape of a passionate conversation with the artist’s late wife. Gregory performs Bone Songs as a kind of “After Dinner with André,” weaving together his own personal anecdotes with the journey of five characters on a cruise to Antarctica: a young couple honeymooning, a middle-aged couple dealing with illness and an old man returning after the death of his wife. The signature performances sold out in Los Angeles and will debut this season in New York.
André Gregory has been one of the most important forces in the American theatre for nearly 40 years. He was the founder of Seattle Repertory Theatre, and in the late 1960s created the Manhattan Project, one of the leading theatres in the New York avant-garde. His ongoing collaboration with playwright Wallace Shawn is at the center of such films as My Dinner with Andre and Vanya on 42nd Street. His legendary production of Alice in Wonderland played in New York for seven years, and toured the U.S., Europe and the Middle East.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- LOST LOVING
- QUINTET - A Musical Overture
- ARCTIC LOVE SONG I
- BEDS OF DYING DAFFODILS
- WHISPER TO ME
- EQUIVOCATE
- ARCTIC LOVE SONG II - Listen to Me
- WAKING THE SPIDERS ON THE FLOOR - Things You Should Have Said but Never Could
- WE’RE MONSTERS
- ARCTIC LOVE SONG III - Shackleton’s Diaries I
- ARCTIC LOVE SONG IV - Ah, Youth!
- THE HEARTH OF DARKNESS
- THROWING THE BONES
- THE MARCH OF TIME
- SEX IS A LITTLE DEATH
- IOWA
- ONE MORE TURN AROUND THE GARDEN - Lamb Stew
- ARCTIC LOVE SONG V - Shackleton’s Final Diary Entry
- FRAGMENTS
- Production History
- Copyright Page