| 3/13/21: THE SILENT WAITER on the Metropolitan Virtual Playhouse | |
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| Symbolist poet and playwright takes on the ideal THE SILENT WAITER by Alfred Kreymborg Seldom-seen and sinister play March 13, 2021, at 8 pm EST Obie Award winner Metropolitan Playhouse presents a new free "screened" reading, live-streamed at no charge, with talkback to follow: THE SILENT WAITER, Alfred Kreymborg. 3/13/2021 at 8:00 pm (Eastern) through 3/17/2021 at 10:00 pm (Eastern) Running Time: 1 hour Free of charge Available at: www.MetropolitanPlayhouse.org/watchsilentwaiter The video will be available through Wednesday, 3/17/21 on the Playhouse webpage, the Metropolitan Playhouse YouTube channel, and the Metropolitan Playhouse Facebook page. On the eve of Jim's wedding, he and best friend Hal dine and drink into the night. Amid the usual pronouncements on life and love, Hal reveals his own history with Jim's fiancée. Their mutual recognitions take the evening, and their lives, in a most unexpected direction, all under the eyes, or perhaps the guidance, of a silent and mysterious waiter A macabre and soulful inquiry into devotion, ideal love, and the meaning of death, THE SILENT WAITER is symbolist poet Kreymborg at his philosophical best. Discussion including audience participation follows the reading. Directed by LAURA LIVINGSTON, the cast features KYLE MAXWELL, and KEVIN MELENDEZ. Graphics by ANNE FIZZARD. ALFRED KREYMBORG (1883 -1966) was one of the Provincetown Playhouse artists who hailed from a working class background, and whose sympathies ever lay with the workers of the US and the world. Vote the New Moon is distinctive in its political thrust, others of his plays were more concerned with domestic and emotional life. But a prolific poet as well as dramatist, and early adopter of free verse, his voice sang among the modernists of the age. With Man Ray, he founded literary magazine "The Glebe," in 1913, and first published Ezra Pound's Des Imagistes. In 1915, he founded "Others: A Magazine of the New Verse" with Skipwith Cannell, Wallace Stevens, and William Carlos Williams, and was an early promoter of give Marianne Moore. He co-edited "Broom, An International Magazine of the Arts, with Harold Loeb from 1919 to 1924, and beginning in 1925, edited the annual American Caravan volumes of new writing. Meanwhile, his prolific outpouring of poetry and drama continued through publication of 1950's No More War and other poems. Best known are his puppet plays "Lima Beans" and 'Manikin Minkin," and his verse drama for NBC radio: "The Planets: A Modern Allegory." His autobiography, published in 1925, is "Troubador." Kreymborg was also a National Master chess player. UPCOMING Metropolitan presents readings every Saturday at 8 pm, Eastern Time March 20, 2021 Winter's Night, by Neith Boyce March 27, 2021 He Said and She Said, by Alice Gerstenberg The VIRTUAL PLAYHOUSE began on March 28, 2020. Exploring the possibilities of ""remote"" ensemble, Metropolitan has pushed the envelope of Zoom broadcasts, with increasingly sophisticated virtual settings and sound design. Each reading is enhanced by conversation with the artists and a guest scholar for an hour-long live entertainment every Saturday night. Reaching an audience across the country and around the globe, the presentation of the forgotten one-act plays is an ideal way to pursue the theater's mission exploring America's diverse theatrical history. METROPOLITAN PLAYHOUSE, in its 29th season, explores America’s diverse theatrical heritage through lost plays of the past and new plays of American historical and cultural moment. The theater received a 2011 OBIE Grant from The Village Voice for its ongoing productions that illuminate who we are by revealing where we have come from. Called ""invaluable"" by the Voice, Backstage and Talkin'?Broadway, Metropolitan has earned further accolades from The New York Times and The New Yorker. Other awards include a Victorian Society of New York Outstanding Performing Arts Group, 3 Aggie Awards from Gay City News, 21 nominations for NYIT Awards (3 winners), and 6 AUDELCO Viv Award nominations. ARTISTS' RELIEF The Playhouse's virtual readings serve to help us compensate performing artists, so particularly hurt during this long ""pause."" Information about the theater's ARTISTS RELIEF FUND may be found at www.metropolitanplayhouse.org/covidaid |
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| Link | http://www.MetropolitanPlayhouse.org/watchsilentwaiter |
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