Date: Mon, 9 Aug 1999 19:15:44 -0700 Subject: Re: PUPT: UNIMA-USA Citations For Excellence From: Mary R Harrison <maryrh-AT-juno.com> >BTW: I saw Basil Twist's show in NYC last year - and it is a phenomenal production! Try to see it if you can. I would certainly agree that Basil Twist's show is quite a phenomenon. It deserves an UNIMA as an innovative, experimental production by daring to create an Abstract puppet play. I must confess that it did not move me. I felt that every scene had the same weight and emphasis, even while using different tools to do this. The Abstract art that has always appealed to me has been Abstract Expressionist art which has contrast and tension within it. So I looked for these elements in this abstract puppet play, because visually that's the style it most resembled. In retrospect I realize that I did him a disservice by forgetting the varieties of Abstract art available. The texture of the piece is much closer to Abstract Impressionism, although that style is admittedly more difficult to render with feathers and cloth underwater. Still, if he were pursuing Abstract Impressionism, which has been defined as "Retaining the quiet uniform pattern of strokes that spread over the canvas without climax or emphasis, these followers keep the Impressionist manner of looking at a scene but leave out the scene." (E. De Kooning, 1956), then he was entirely and without question, successful. It's just not my cup of tea. Mary Robinette Harrison Other Hand Productions maryrh-AT-juno.com http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/Balcony/9662 --- Personal replies to: Mary R Harrison <maryrh-AT-juno.com> --- List replies to: puptcrit-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- Admin commands to: majordomo-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
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