Word: hyacinths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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PURPLE = eggplant, hyacinth, jasmine, glacier, thistle...
...area of Brazilian savanna known as the cerrado. (The less than $1-an-acre budget shows how badly outmatched many environmental actions still are.) The cerrado is one of the world's most diverse swaths of nature, a kind of National Geographic theme park where howler monkeys and hyacinth macaws dance and sing from buriti palms and vast treeless grasslands. But in the past 30 years, more than half its original vegetation has been chewed away--and almost 75% will be gone...
...Carson as well. Lear's account delicately suggests that Carson discovered great passion only at 46, and with a married woman at that. Carson poured a lifetime's pent-up feelings into her letters and encounters with Dorothy Freeman, an amateur naturalist and Maine neighbor, who became her "white hyacinth for the soul." The two women recognized that, as Carson wrote, "our brand of 'craziness' would be a little hard for anyone but us to understand." Indeed, as Carson's cancer intensified, Freeman was sufficiently worried about the "implication" of their letters to beg Carson to destroy their correspondence...
Well, they don't call it the Ex for nothing. Questionable meanings and meaningful questions form the heart of the singularly brave and bizarre "The Hyacinth Macaw," a challenging play filled with vibrant language, energetic acting and the disconcerting sense that often there are times when neither audience nor actors know exactly what is happening. Ultimately, "Macaw" affirms that we are challenged most when the familiar is made strange, but at the same time illustrates some dangers in doing...
...that the genre is wrong: as a radio play the musicality of the monologues, the ritual speeches, and the sound effects would come across very well as would the more expressive silences. But so long as one overlooks the difficulties that no doubt come with the new territory, "The Hyacinth Macaw" certainly offers a philosophical challenge, if not always a cohesive play...