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Monday, July 4, 2011

ANNE CARSON, contemporary poet

"Time isn't made of anything.
It is an abstraction.
Just a meaning that
we impose upon motion."
Ann Carson

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PAST PRODUCTION - SHAKESPEARE'S WILL

JULY 24, 2010 - "Shakespeare's Will" (Canadian playwright, Verne Thiessen) - Anne Hathaway, Shakespeare's wife's, story. A one-woman piece w/ musical interludes which introduces Anne Hathaway as she returns home from her husband's funeral, his will in hand. Thiessen uses his Will and Anne's relationship to explore contemporary relationship issues. His Anne is in many ways a modern woman in her 16th century world, which we see as she recalls their time together and apart and their unique wedding vow. Allowing a visualization of an Elizabethan woman juxtaposed against an immense expansion of glass, a contemporary architectural setting, the production is staged in the Ellerbee Road Unitarian Church sanctuary, Shreveport, Louisiana.

PAST PRODUCTION - COPENHAGEN

July 24, 2010 - COPENHAGEN A Play by Michael Frayn produced and presented by Robert Alford The LSU Shreveport Department of Communications in collaboration with jcgcollaborations featuring Reece Middleton - John Bundrick - Marshall Middleton September 11 and 12, 2009 - 8:00 pm LSU-SHREVEPORT BLACK BOX THEATRE Bronson Hall111 1st Floor Liberal Arts Building Tickets $5.00 Paula Rae Brown - Associate Producer/Assistant to Director Pruitt Taylor Vince - Associate Producer Jane Ryder - Costume Coordinator Continuing Education 318-798-4177 or go to http://ce.lsus.edu/CatalogOfferingView.aspx?offeringID=703 Reservations/Information 318-797-5396 or go to ralford@lsus.edu mature theme - not suitable for audiences under 13 years of age

FOOL FOR LOVE POSTPONED

FOOL FOR LOVE - SAM SHEPARD - Sam Shepard is considered a legendary American playwright. This will be the first of his works to be produced in Shreveport. "Fool for Love" is a powerful story of a tumultuous relationship between two high school lovers whom we find some twenty years later still enmeshed in the relationship. They remember and reflect upon the never-revealed secret of their relationship. Keep a lookout for January production dates. This production is a collaboration between: LSU-S Dept. Communications, Robert Alford, theatre director - and - jcgcollaborations, to be directed by Jerelyn C. Gilstrap

OTHER GILSTRAP PRODUCTIONS

the poem is the last resort (conceived & adapted for stage by director) - silence (in collaboration with choreographer Nancy Havlik) - night - landscape - dark pony - reunion - the sanctity of marriage - strange snow - boseman and lena- the jewish wife - ancestral voices - a space filled with time (conceived & adapted for stage by director- choreographer Annetta Dexter Sawyer; (Source Theatre, Wash.,D.C & Dixon Place Studio, NYC) - reunion - re-arrangements (in collaboration with choreographer Lloyd Whitmore) - winner 2nd place Source Theatre Summer Festival) of fireflies & ferris wheels, video for State Dept. Culture Program - At Your Own Risk, staged play reading series developed in collaboration with actor Paula Brown, director/actor John F. Daniel and Robert Alford, LSU-S
2009-'10 AT YOUR OWN RISK "COPENHAGEN" (Frayn); Director, Jerelyn C. Gilstrap;
"BOSTON MARRIAGE" (Mamet); Director, Robert Alford; September 2009
"KINDERTRANSPORT" (Samuels); Director, John F. Daniel; January 2009
"I HAVE BEFORE ME A REMARKABLE DOCUMENT GIVEN ME BY A YOUNG WOMAN FROM RWANDA" (Linde); Director, Mary Joris; May 2009

SATIE

Erik Satie: Composer influencing Debussy, Ravel, Poulenc. Because his music was ahead of his time and regarded as timeless, he also had a great influence on many modern composers. Considered eccentric and an outsider with projects of his own. Founded his own church. Valued his privacy greatly. Never let anyone see his apartment where he lived the last 27 years of his life. Was known to have had only one relationship - in 1893 with the model, painter & former trapeze artist, Suzanne Valalon. Click on his photo to read more and hear fragments of his compositions.

Joyce

Lucia Joyce: Misunderstood throughout her life and in history, as well, the daughter of the famed writer, James Joyce, whose style revolutionized early 20th century literature. Considered her father's muse, particularly the young female characters in "Ulysses" and "Finnegans Wake." A recent biography of her by Professor Carol Schloss imagines her life as an artist in her own right, her role in her father's work from an early age and subject to emotional breakdowns. This is the first heavily researched biography to look at Lucia's behavior within the context of her home life and the role she played in her father's work. Tragically, she died after residing many years in a mental institution. Her mother visited her once in ten years and her brother twice. Joyce himself died while attempting to get papers that would release Lucia before the Nazi occupation of Paris. She learned of his death in a newspaper article. Almost as engrossing as the life of the Joyce family is the behavior of Joyce's grandson with regard to what the Estate will and will not allow access for any reason. He personally destroyed hundreds of letters between Lucia and her father. Dr. Schloss, in a long-term legal battle, gained more access than anyone to date.

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ANNE CARSON, contemporary poet

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