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Translation at The Poets' Theater, Jan 22
If you want to and can, please come to a production by the resurrected Poets' Theatre: an evening of poems in their own language and in translation, held at the wonderfully restored Modern Theatre in Boston's Combat Zone. Bob Scanlan directs.
Here's the blurb -- The Word Exchange: the Power and Music of Language in Translation Presented by Suffolk University and The Poets’ Theatre With: Dan Donoghue David Ferry Amanda Gann Eamon Grennan George Kalogeris Marcia Karp Rachel Kitzinger Paula Langton Fred Marchant Nguyen Ba Chung Aidan Parkinson Lloyd Schwartz and others Understand the profound potency and music of language in this extraordinary evening of international poetry, including works from Vietnam, Italy, France, Ancient Greece and Rome, evocatively performed both in the original and in translations by world class poets and actors. Thursday, January 22, 7:30 P.M. The Modern Theatre at Suffolk University 525 Washington Street, Boston |
Sounds great, I wish I could go.
Susan |
I wish you could, too, Susan.
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Whose work will you be sharing with English-speakers, Marcia? (Not that translations aren't the translator's own work, too, but you know what I mean.)
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I do know what you mean, Julie -- I'll be reading 3 riddles from the Anglo-Saxon Exeter Book.
Thanks for asking. |
What fun! Racy ones might be appropriate, given the venue. :)
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Racy, they are.
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Would love to be there, Marcia--hope you'll tell me about it later!
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I will, Terese.
Here's a way to get a tiny (10%) discount on the occasion: Go here to order tickets and use Poets10 as the Promotional Code. |
After rehearsals this week, I feel better about suggesting you come if you can. It's going to be very funky: a set with comfy chairs and sofas and a digital fireplace flickering away as we all sit listening to each other. There will be apt music between the language sets. Everything is bilingual and quite good, including some of Richard Wilbur's translations from the French. (He is one of the few not in attendance whose translations will be read.)
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