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Mystic
Theatre
presents
Now
available for booking, Mystic Theatre, announces three unique productions
that showcase our innovative approach to performing poetry. Using
a multi-media approach, with actors, dance, original music, and strong
visual elements, we take our audiences on a new journey into familiar and
not so familiar poetry. Not your standard poetry reading, our
performances inspire audiences as they encounter the beauty of the
poems using nearly all of their senses.
E-mail us at
mystic@nac.net for more information
on booking any of these three productions.
Based on a poem by D. H. Lawrence, Tortoise Shout is a multi-media
performance piece, compiling poetry by Lawrence, Anne Sexton, Ruth Krauss,
Ted Hughes, ee cummings, Ken Gaertner, Thomas Lynch, and Muriel Rukysert.
All of the poems explore and celebrate sexuality. Tortoise Shout
takes the audience on a sensual tour of the most profound connection between
people: sex.
“The visual, aural, and poetic imagery is
fresh, mind-expanding and sensual. Those who follow this evening
of poetry/theatre will find it inspiring. A special and unique evening."
Victor Gluck – Backstage
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Three
Parts Whitman
by Thomas Heine
Three Women
45 minutes
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Three women portraying Walt Whitman at various points in his life speak
the words and
poetry of Whitman to offer a moving portrayal of the great American
poet. With music and
movement, the performance explores the joys of living, the horrors
of war, a life of the spirit,
and mortality. As the great sensualist offered a song of himself,
Three Parts Whitman celebratescompassion and our common goodness
that makes up humanity
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Carl
Sandberg: A Man in the Street
poems by Carl Sandberg
One Man
50 minutes |
Richard Kohn, performs the poetry of Carl Sandberg, which gather the hopes
and losses
of working people everywhere. The voice of Everyman, Sandberg incarnates
the voice of a
young girl dreaming of escaping her small town for the promise of Chicago,
the aching muscles of steel mill workers in Gary Indiana, and the man in
the street, who has heard it all before and still asks, “Why?” Mr. Kohn
has been performing Sandberg’s poetry for several years in New York, Baltimore
and Washington, has now joined Mystic Theatre to make this performance
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