Scene4 — This Issue: April 2012


	April 2012

		This Issue New Features Perspectives more here From the Archives more here

COMMENTARY

Authoritarian Musicals
Michael Bettencourt
Why musicals are so successful, crowding out other forms of theatre, bears some thinking about — at least during intermission with $4 wine in a plastic cup.

The Apparent Eugene O'Neill
Arthur Meiselman
In today's "Pax Americana", disposable, dyspeptic, American culture, O'Neill remains a unique, almost unimaginable
American artist.

Tour Tales
Nathan Thomas
Just now I have word from a student that he's going on the road. Instantly my envy starts to rise. But touring is a young person's game.

If I Had A Speech Jammin Gun
Les Marcott
If I had a speech jamming gun… well I've only begun to contemplate its uses and misuses. What is a speech jamming gun? It's a hot new invention.

She's so cute...(and she knows it)
Claudine Jones
I've marched in solidarity with women, but I don't think I've experienced the 'sisterhood' aspect of life. Seen it but don't recognize it in myself.

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FILM (reviews)
The Woman In Black
The Iron Lady
When the thrills come, The Woman In Black offers the most powerful and terrifying of any cinematic ghost story in my experience. In its depiction of Thatcher's political life, which is what we came to see, The Iron Lady is a total botch. .
Miles David Moore

DANCE
Hope Mohr Dance and Dušan Týnek Dance Theatre
Dušan Týnek and Hope Mohr shared the common experience of years of training at the Merce Cunningham Studio and their devotion to this demanding and detailed technique is clear in both their work.
Catherine Conway Honig

ARTS OF THAILAND (Painting)
Supawat Thonglamul
Some people call Supawat Thonglamul one of the art masters and I agree with them. He is a Thai contemporary artist who uses air brush to paint.
Janine Yasovant
คลิกเพื่ออ่านบทความนี้ เป็นภาษาไทย


	Sad Time In The City Last month I was sucker-punched. A hit man didn't come after me. The roof of my house didn't fall in. My family didn't stop speaking to me. No, it was much worse. Kathi Wolfe

		COMICS My Old Man! Grampa and Gramma An ongoing series by Scene4's resident mad cartoonist Elliot Feldman

MEDIA Hollywood's Gate2 Conference Is it possible for Hollywood to touch people's emotions with stories that help seed a culture of peace and a positive vision for our future? Arthur Kanegis


	That Silent Pause Why do poets stand up in public to read or recite their work? Is it for applause? Did their publishers say it's the only way to sell books?. Karren Alenier

		WRITING On The Road Kerouac's Lost America On The Road, published in 1957, is the signature work of the Beat Generation's signature writer. It describes an experience of an America that is 'gone'. Griselda Steiner


	San Francisco: Above, Below and In Between The Photography of Jon Rendell


	A Connection of Joy The Photography of Eleanor Leonne Bennett


	Safe From the Outside World The Art of SS. Burrus

Illusions Self-Dispossessed Iri Kopal
Who are you? Why have you come here? Do you think I need you?
Oh, for the money, yes. Only the money.

Conversations Seldom Overheard [Salvation] Arthur Meiselman
In a cave, in the hills, in a country.

Dead Dog In A Tuxedo Les Marcott
Listen lady, for the tenth time there's a dead dog in the alley behind my house.

Sea Fire Arthur Meiselman
I am your reader and you are my listener. I am a wanderer.

My Daughters Griselda Steiner
Lyric poem for The Queen Of The Night from the musical Hypatia.

Many Dreams: Or Persistence Norman MacAfee
"It is kindness, not money, rules the world". — Emeric Pressburger to Michael Powell
on the meaning of their film I Know Where I'm Going!




	In This Issue Cuffed Frays A play about relationships, communication, aging, hope, longing, loss and acceptance. It occurs in the surreal "present" in a rural setting. It is a fable featuring a late middle-aged (to old) couple who stay together in a gnarled love. Time has braided them together though their choice of words, familiar rituals and daily practice. The physical flesh is abhorrent, so they manage by jokes and projecting their love onto a pet animal. However, this cat is dying too. by Grace Cavalieri Read the Play

What Is Obscenity and What's Not?
January 2012 Click Here
A Brief But Quirky
History of the Arts
January 2011 Click Here

The Rising Fall of the Arts
January 2010 Click Here

The One
January 2009 Click Here

What Is Art? / 2008
January 2008 Click Here

View of the Arts/2007
January 2007 Click Here

The Art of Sex in the Arts
February 2006 Click Here

State of the Art of the Arts
October 2005 Click Here


	Cole Porter The One who writes music and lyrics Lia Beachy January 2009

	What Nice Girls Draw Marit Victoria explores the meaning and the seriousness of sex Ren Powell February 2006

	Past and Future Joined Talking with Brecht and Meyerhold Nathan Thomas January 2007


	The Steiny Road to Operadom A complete index of all of Karren Alenier's columns in Scene4 with links. Click Here for Access


	Comics A complete index of all of Elliot Feldman's comics in Scene4 with links. Click Here for Access


	Film Reviews A complete linked index of all of the film reviews by Scene4's Film Critic, Miles David Moore Click Here for Access

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	Karren Alenier The Dresser addresses what's underneath the art

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

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


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