This Issue | Scene4 Magazine April 2017

Shocked Into Silence
Betroffenheit

How could they possibly portray this tragedy in words and movement without overdoing it?

Catherine Conway Honig

The Indians
Were You

Get Out
13th
I Am Not Your Negro

Capturing the basic disconnect between
black and white society.

Miles David Moore

Medieval and Modern

German Expressionist Prints in an intense exhibition at Bowdoin College Museum

Carla Maria
Verdino-Süllwold

On Exact Language
The current political situation is now in full deconstructionist mode. Our power -mongers, as all power-mongers do, have bled the truth value out of language.
Michael Bettencourt

WindTalking
We're inundated with children who cannot write with their prehensile thumbs and who mumble-speak through their numbed noses.
Arthur Meiselman

Fuck. I Forgot the Feta
I have a little time on my hands. This leads me to ask a question: What do syphilis, Walter Cronkite & Fred Silverman have in common?
Claudine Jones

Come Into the Fire
The hallmark of live performance is the spark of the connection between actor and audience. When that spark happens...
Nathan Thomas

Irish Bards and “Bardspell”
I’m fond of pointing out that prose is like beer, but poetry is like whiskey–condensed, distilled, and plenty heady.
Patrick Walsh

Ode To A Friend
Kenny Sibbett had the ability to meld humor and existential angst
that endeared him not only to me but many other fans.
Les Marcott

Resisting Versus Surviving

Resistance To Doom
I had to make room for hope.

Karren LaLonde Alenier

The Steiny Road To Operadom | Karren LaLonde Alenier | Scene4 Magazine | www.scene4.com

"Salome" at SF Ballet | reviewed by Renate Stendhal | Scene4 Magazine - April 2017 www.scene4.com

Salome
at SF Ballet

It has all the glamorous elements of a Hollywood movie, with the surreal touch, adult sexuality and violence.

Renate Stendhal

How Old Was Salome?

"And his (John the Baptist’s) head was brought on a platter and given to the girl, and she brought it to her mother.” She brought it to her mother! How did this girl (how old? The bible doesn’t say; perhaps as young as Lolita?) manipulated by her mother to dance for her drunken (step) father, how did she acquire such a bad reputation?

Kim Chernin

Arts of Thailand
Udom Wanjing

My only wish is to make people realize the significance of nature which acts like a great mother who gives birth to all living beings
in this world.

Janine Yasovant
คลิกเพื่ออ่านบทความนี้ เป็นภาษาไทย

Colors of the Roundtable: Episode 7-Part IV | David Wiley | Scene4 Magazine | April 2017 | www.scene4.com

Episode 7:
Visions Of Paradise - Part IV

"During our visit from Lady Chameleon, Lady Magenta and I were holding hands, and a kind of miracle occurred between us”.

David Wiley

Old Fart Village

War of
the Walkers

Elliot Feldman

Champion
A Jazz Opera

A unique entry in opera with a musical palette that slides back and forth between a modern classical construction (played by a orchestra) and full blown jazz with its own jazz quartet.

Karren LaLonde Alenier

Amour Fou

“Wasn’t this the life everyone wanted?”
Third excerpt from
Kiss Me Again, Paris
a memoir by
Renate Stendhal

The Other Side
of History

The Living Goddesses
by Marija Gimbutas
Reflections on a higher vision of female identity.

Griselda Steiner


	Flourishing Flora The Photography of Jon Rendell

	The New Mascot ~ You Were My Epiphany The Art of David Wiley


	Undress Me Michael Bettencourt In a bar, Laura turns to Stefan and asks him to undress her by word of mouth, in his best mother tongue.


	The Greed Gene Michael Bettencourt A young couple is told by their genetic counselor, the "genie of genes" that their child has the greed gene, and there is nothing they can do.

Scene4 Magazine: Perspectives - Audio | Theatre Thoughts | Michael Bettencourt April 2016 | www.scene4.com


	THEATRE THOUGHTS


	An astute and entertaining array of audio essays on an array of topics by an astute and entertaining essayist.


Letters to the Editor Recent Letters

Qreviews Long & short reviews of theatre, film and more

Que Pasa Notices, announcements and coming attractions


	Karren LaLonde Alenier The Dresser addresses what’s underneath the art

	Miles David Moore Thoughts and observations from, to, for or against


		Arthur Meiselman Nightdances

	Les Marcott Dr. Barnabus T. Bynum's Travelling Minstrel Show


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