Kidd Pivot’s The Tempest Replica at On the Boards
Kidd Pivot’s founder Crystal Pite has seized the opportunity to put her stamp on Shakespeare’s The Tempest and has crafted a work of jaw-dropping physical intensity and emotional vulnerability.
The Ghastly Impermanence: Poets and the Poetry of Radio Drama
It makes perfect sense that a culture whose most powerful public mass medium was radio should value the spoken word highly. Poets themselves were well aware of this quality of radio. It would take awhile, however, before poets began to write especially for the medium itself.
Interleavings: Serendipity and the Auto/Biographical Process
I found Dr. Remick’s name in a Little School folder. What was it doing there? It turns out that at the same time Dr. Remick was an affirmative action officer and attended that Women’s Studies meeting, she was the parent of a Little School pupil when it was in the Bellevue facility.
The Ghastly Impermanence: Exploring Radio Drama
A new regular column by Omar Willey dealing with broadcast and audio drama in all its aspects.
The Keys to Having a Bad-Assed Pantry: Part 4 – Grains, Legumes and Other Dried Goods
So here we are, the end of the pantry-stocking world. It’s all about the dried goods. It may not seem that exciting but let me tell you, when the world collapses these are the items that are going to save your life.
October 16, 1965: Mickey Mouse Fight Club
On the date in focus here, roughly 400 protesters turned out for Seattle’s first major local demonstration against the Vietnam War, and were greeted with rather feral heckling from right-wing counter-protesters. Jeff Stevens histories you mousely.
Superior Donuts: The Kitchen Sink and the Coffee Pot
In these days of billions of Facebook postings and tweets about the most absurd minutiae in a human life, can banality remain banal anymore? Or has all drama simply been reduced to banality? Omar Willey traces the stream of banality back to its fountainhead.
The Finest Work Songs: Alan Lau and Susie Kozawa
On October 18th, Alan Lau and Susie Kozawa (longtime collaborators and working artists) will be revisiting a piece that they originally presented at the Seattle Art Museum in 1996. Lau’s part, initially a response to the Seattle Art Museum’s exhibit “In The American Grain,” will provide a reading poetry as well as words from four modernist American artists, while Kozawa will respond to Lau’s poetry as well as the space itself. Over e-mail, I asked the two to talk about their experiences with artistic collaboration, their experience with this piece, and with each other.
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