Above is a picture from a 2010 production of The Dumb Waiter at Chicago's TUTA Theater. Below is a link to a review of this production: http://chicagotheaterbeat.com/2012/07/23/review-the-dumb-waiter-tuta-theatre-chicago/Now for our readings -- and viewings. Below are pictures from the Unexpected Stage Company's productions of The Dumb Waiter and Trifles.
Trifles
The Dumb Waiter
See the link here for a BBC version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYV0sbzEIJQ
Nosferatu (1922, dir. F.W. Murnau)
Poems:
Robert Hayden -- "Those Winter Sundays" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjosL9VpXjY
Gwendolyn Brooks -- "We Cool" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyKF2e2CiMk
Mary Ellen Solt -- "Forsythia" http://celansalon.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/forsythia3.jpg
Maxine Kumin -- "The Sound of Night"
William Carlos Williams -- "The Red Wheelbarrow"
Allison Joseph -- "On Being Told I Don't Speak Like a Black Person"
Robert Bly -- "Driving to Town Late to Mail a Letter"
George Herbert -- "The Altar" http://www.ccel.org/h/herbert/temple/Altar.html
(Note that Mr. Herbert wrote during the 1600s!)
Howard Nemerov -- "Found Poem" http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16512
(Note that his sister was the photographer Diane Arbus. Below is one of her photographs.)
Other found poetry is available here: http://www.foundpoetryreview.com/
Dylan Thomas' villanelle "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15377
Theodore Roethke's "My Papa's Waltz" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1TD1saNCqA
William Shakespeare's Sonnet 130 read by Alan Rickman
Li Young Lee's "Eating Alone"
Charles Bukowski's "my old man"
Marge Piercy's "Barbie Doll"
We watched an interview with former Poet Laureate Rita Dove on the anthology that she edited:
We also watched an interview with US Poet Laureate Philip Levine and UK Poet Laureate Carol Anne Duffy:
We also watched Stephen and Ashley's presentation on Alfred Hitchcock's films. The PowerPoint is at MyMC.
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