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In 17C France, we have learned, when the Comédie Française banned all spoken dialogue except on its own stage, other companies responded by turning plays into serial monologues, with actors rushing on- and offstage. When all speech of any kind was banned, they sang and invented operetta. When singing was banned they held up cue-cards and mimed; the audience sang or spoke the lines. With similarly contrarian inventiveness we will take any tragicomic text, (in honor of the Ouvroir de tragécomédie potentielle, from whom we learned about censorship as constraint) and similar evade any possible imagined suppression of it. Please find your own favorite bit of tragicomedy and join us at Proteus Gowanus, 7-9 pm, tomorrow, Wednesday, October 2nd. $5 to writhe, $2/glass for the free wine. See you there!
Posted on: Tue, 01 Oct 2013 16:36:08 +0000

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