Tribute to Olympia Dukakis who died (5/1/21) at 89.
We worked together on a Brecht’s MOTHER COURAGE in Montclair. Olympia was a formidable MOTHER with the stirring score by Paul Dessau. Her Whole Theatre Company had moved into a vacant bank building on Bloomfield Ave.
Their work included Genet’s THE MAIDS and Tennessee Williams SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH all starring Olympia that were quite strong and moving. At one point she needed to return a script to an agent in Manhattan and I volunteered to do that for her.
Olympia was also interested in my play FANGS TO RICHES and…
The Newark Library published a trio of my poems with Planet, Person and Poem series established there by Flora Higgins. All of those works re-appear in “organized labor” (Author House)…
Daniel P Quinn’s books cover a season at LaScala as a guest of Claudio Abbado; Irish Theatre in Dublin, Ireland; Paterson, NJ with Lyon, France. His Trilogy first appeared as a Duo in Short Plays to Long Remember and subsequently in Local Knowledge (2015–21). He was a guest artist at Rutgers University; SUNY/Brockport; Dublin theatre Festival; Teatro Trianon in Rome, Italy. He has also appeared Off-Broadway, Lincoln Center and regionally as Director and Producer. Certificate in Ethics: Rutgers University School of Business; William Carlos Williams Center; Lambert Castle; Morris Museum, Rutgers University, Irish Arts Center; Snug Harbor and Italian-American Museum…
World Theatre and American Phantasmagoria
Our contemporary theatrical reality is a world vastly different than any that have preceded it. Before the 21th century words were the basis for theatre. Playwrights wrote plays. The director, the actor, and the designer created their work from the words the playwright supplied.
In the 20th century a change took place with Antonin Artaud and Bertolt Brecht.
“If you can’t explain what you mean, it doesn’t mean you don’t know what it is, or that you don’t mean it. It only means either that it can’t be explained or that you can’t explain it”.
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They choose some of my writing for this project.
Healing Voices Workshop w/McCarter Theatre Company, Princeton.
ArtsPR links AMERICAN PHANTASMAGORIA within this crisis to transform our lives and “organized labor”…
They also also saluted Columbus at that time based in part to the popular Columbus World’s Fair exhibitions which marked their identity as Americans in a foreign land. The Statue of Liberty greeted these refugees in New York Harbor and at Ellis Island from their impoverished life in Southern Italy. Caruso and Verdi’s music still shine as legends in Italian culture and every opera house in the world. The Newark Sunday Call published a striking photo of my Caruso Family in 1925. The Irish journalist referred to them as a “clan” which is an endearing Irish expression foreign to gli…
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Blogs in The New York Times; AMERICAN PHANTASMAGORIA (Lulu); “organized labor“(Author House); Red Wheelbarrow; TheHerald News; PAJ; Theatre Journal; Word Press.
