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SubText NOV 6 - stories of Love and Redemption

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Channel: Norah Dooley · 2010 · Entertainment

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This past weekend we continued our collaboration with Central Square Theater's newest addition to its "Talk in the Box" programming, "SubText: Your Stories, Real or Imagined", with a pre-show storytelling event before Saturday's performance of A MOON FOR THE MISBEGOTTEN.  In partnership with CST  and  Boston Globe Love Letters columnist, Meredith Goldstein, we presented a diverse roster of storytellers with one thing in common: their stories were all inspired by  MOON theme, "Love and Redemption."

For each production we will feature a lineup of storytellers and offer the opportunity for our audience members to become storytellers, too, by relating to the performance with their own stories, made up or true, 5 minutes or under.

On Saturday night we enjoyed 8 true stories. 3 from Meredith's readers and 5 from massmouth storytellers who performed in a mini "story slam".

Next SubText Theme: Personal and Political
by Naomi Wallace
Directed by Elena Araoz
November 18th - December 19th

Three dream plays inspired by true events. An Israeli soldier meets a mysterious Palestinian woman in the Rafah Zoo. A Palestinian father reveals to a young Israeli their shared history. A bookish Iraqi bird collector tells of his conscription into Saddam's army. Through magic realism and surprising humor, The Fever Chart: Three Visions of the Middle East reaches out like prophecy, challenging us to envision peace during the holiday season.

Naomi Wallace commits the unpardonable sin of being...outrageously optimistic. She seems to believe the world can change. She certainly writes as if she intends to set it on fire."
—Tony Kushner 
http://centralsquaretheater.org/season/10-11/fever.html

Music: The Duchess from - Fire & Grace Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Haas, cello
Combine the traditional sounds of 18th Century Scottish Dance music with the elegant drawing rooms of Edinburgh, and then layer on top funky 21st century rhythms of scrunchy bowed cello technique and you have some idea of the delights of this CD.

While the notated cello parts for traditional Scottish fiddle music from the 18th century would be at home in the chordal structure and counterpoint represented by Natalie's playing, she and Alasdair have taken the genre to a whole new level by adding driving rhythmic counterpoint which gives the album a distinctive 21st century sizzle.

http://www.amazon.com/Fire-Grace-Alasdair-Fraser/dp/B0001HAIZO

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