Word: miracolo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...MIRACOLO D'AMORE Clowns and choruses, nudes and birdsong enlivened Martha Clarke's surreal fantasy of love and violence, a montage of painterly and powerful images first seen at the Spoleto Festival U.S.A., in Charleston...
...MIRACOLO D'AMORE. Clowns and choruses, nudes and birdsong enliven Martha Clarke's surreal fantasy, off-Broadway, of love and violence...
...MIRACOLO d'AMORE...
...with items that were scheduled anyway or that are customary offerings of the city's arts institutions. Some ballyhooed events, they noted, were direct transfers: O'Neill's Ah, Wilderness! and Long Day's Journey into Night from the Yale Repertory Theater, Martha Clarke's Cocteau-like erotic fantasy Miracolo d'Amore from the Spoleto Festival U.S.A. in Charleston, S.C. While the $4.3 million in available subsidies was welcomed, many in the city's arts community questioned whether the whole venture was needed. Explained Publicist Bruce Cohen, whose clients include several festival offerings: "New York City is an arts festival...
...same complaints might be made about Clarke's Miracolo d'Amore, which is rescued by being exquisitely beautiful. Clarke usually credits a painter with inspiring her imagery. This time it is Tiepolo. But the ancient crone sweeping and cackling, the commedia dell'arte clowns, the quartet of nude women gently interweaving in a dance, the men employing a variety of bird noises, the eerily believable copulation between a girl and a skeleton also bring to mind Cocteau and Gertrude Stein and Picasso and Diaghilev. If more explicitly violent and more frequently nude than necessary, Miracolo is nonetheless a fitting tribute...