Word: poem
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Loeb production of Facade, the Sitwell poem is read through twice. In the first act, there is one reader accompanied by orchestra, while in the second, the actors mime to a recorded reading of the poem...
...similar multi-media reading of Dame Edith Sitwell's 1923 sound poem, Facade, is now at the Loeb. While I did not feel impelled to scream along with the show at the end--this being more like, say, a Mozart concerto than a Beethoven symphony--the Loeb production is admirably creative, refreshing and unhackneyed, and certainly deserved the spontaneous exclamation of approval of a member of the audience it did receive at the end of the first act the other night...
Like a child distracted by the strange things mentioned in the poem, the narrator's voice lingers, hurries, skips, stretches and yawns. In a similar peripatetic fashion, three screens hung above the stage project slides of clippings from a 1923 magazine, echoing in an offhanded and unobtrusive way images and objects mentioned in the poem, while two huge panels of spotlights blink lazily like cows into gorgeous rainbow colors in rhythm to the music and words...
...Shells. Thus encouraged, the group moved from an initial prosy, collective poem to individual efforts inspired by music ("The doctor almost gave me up/ Till I heard that music/ Then I started to move") and touched objects ("This powder puff makes me think of your hair"). For one workshop, Koch and Farrell brought sea shells, seaweed and bags of sand to elicit sea poems ("I, the ocean/ So huge/ So powerful/ So rich"). Says Koch of his props: "The residents lived in such a deprived environment that if you brought in anything, they'd be inspired." By the final...
...wrote a poem that won the notice of the Academic Française. At the age of 83 he died, shortly after composing his last Alexandrine. During the decades between he came to think of himself as Olympic-an apt sobriquet, for Victor Hugo lived life with the vigor and ego of a Greek god. Once, when Hugo was about 80, his teen-age grandson found the old man making love to a young laundress. "Look," said Hugo proudly, "that is what they call genius...