Robert Graves has, in many books and essays, declared his view of the purpose of poetry, which I understand as being the celebration of the Muse—seen by the ancients as a manifold goddess, but comprehensible in modern psychological terms as the forces of birth, fertility and sexual power, the feminine tenderness of life and the…
Author: Jamie
These violent delights have violent ends
These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which as they kiss consume: the sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness And in the taste confounds the appetite: Therefore love moderately; long love doth so; Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow. Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
FPS #14
Happy Summer Solstice!
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm’d; And every fair from fair sometime declines,…
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Jean Genet’s The Balcony at The Old Mint (Tableau IV)
Jean Genet’s The Balcony at The Old Mint (Tableau I)
Jean Genet’s The Balcony at The Old Mint (Tableau III)
The Balcony lives on at MP+D
The Museum of Performance + Design presents Latifa Medjdoub: Sublimated Masks. An exhibition of Collected Works’ recent site specific performance of Jean Genet’s The Balcony at The Old Mint through the designs of Latifa Medjdoub and photographs and video exploring the theatrical vision of the production. The April 16th opening will include performances from the…
Franconia Performance Salon #13
Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.) Dorothy Parker, “The Flaw in Paganism” in Death and Taxes (1931)
FPS #13
Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.) “The Flaw in Paganism” in Death and Taxes (1931) Works by: Rebecca Ormiston & Rebecca Chaleff, Omer Gal, Nathalie Brilliant, Richie Rhombus, Vivek Narayan, Yula Paluy and Renu Cappelli.
Happy Spring
Flowers from Shakespeare’s Garden by Walter Crane (1906). It was a lover and his lass, With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, That o’er the green corn-field did pass In the spring time, the only pretty ring time, When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding: Sweet lovers love the spring….