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Ferociouskitty
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Username: Ferociouskitty
Post Number: 329
Registered: 02-2008
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, July 14, 2008 - 07:06 pm: | 
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And not just because Cynique is there...;-)
Is that tour guide Lucille Clifton?
If Lucille Clifton had spent more time in Chicago than Baltimore,
she might have ended up in the Guild Complex's Poetry Performance
Incubator.
For the six people in the Guild Complex's Poetry Performance
Incubator, they have taken on the jobs of poet, playwright, ensemble
member, actor, contributing set designer and…tour guide. Yes, tour
guide. The inaugural Poetry Performance Incubator will debut its
inaugural performance, Tour Guides, at the Viaduct Theater on
Friday, July 18, through Sunday, July 20.
Tour Guides asks the question, "What is Chicago?" The variety of
answers includes landmark neighborhood locations like Harold's
Chicken and Moo & Oink. (It's about so much more than the Sears
Tower and the John Hancock for Chicago natives.) The poets will take
you on the CTA, on tours of their neighborhoods, through the tastes
and smells of Chicago food – this is an eating town – and into the
heart of how those of us who live here nestle next to and grate
against those around us.
The Poetry Performance Incubator is a pilot project of the Guild
Complex that has been percolating for the last five years. Though
Chicago has a strong tradition of performance poetry, few poets have
the developed sense of stage craft that actors have. Even fewer have
worked in an ensemble setting. The Incubator pushes at the
intersection of poetry and theater with the aim of creating a truly
hybrid form. Poets and actors auditioned for the Incubator with the
criteria of learning the theater or developing their writing,
whichever was the less familiar for them, which included writing
work for others as well as themselves and staging the work through
an ensemble process. It should be noted that Tour Guides is
performed by the group of poets who collaboratively wrote the piece.
Kimberly Dixon, Steven Evans, Stephanie Gentry-Fernandez, Ricardo
Gamboa, Tricia Hersey and Rupal Soni have developed their hybrid
craft under the guidance of award-winning director Coya Paz, co-
founder of Teatro Luna and a poet herself.
Performances of Tour Guides will be:
Friday, July 18, 7:00 p.m.
Saturday, July 19, at 7:00 p.m.
Sunday, July 20, at 2:00 p.m.
Viaduct Theatre, 3111 N. Western Ave., Chicago.
Tickets are $8.
Order through the Viaduct Theatre box office at 773.296.6024.
For more information, please check the Guild Complex website
www.guildcomplex. org.
We promise, you'll leave the theater knowing more about Chicago than
when you got there – even if you're a local.
Happy hump day -- and we mean Wednesday,
The Guild |
Rondall
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Username: Rondall
Post Number: 148
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, July 15, 2008 - 10:56 am: |
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I will post this in the poetry section also...thanks Ferociouskitty. |
Ferociouskitty
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Username: Ferociouskitty
Post Number: 334
Registered: 02-2008
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, July 15, 2008 - 12:16 pm: |
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Duh. Why didn't I think of that? Sorry about that Rondall. ;-) |
Rondall
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Post Number: 153
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, July 16, 2008 - 12:21 pm: |
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Nothing but love for ya Ferociouskitty... |
Ferociouskitty
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Username: Ferociouskitty
Post Number: 335
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, July 16, 2008 - 02:13 pm: |
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Oh, Rondall...
I gave Terrance's wife your message. No reply yet. ;-) |
Rondall
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Username: Rondall
Post Number: 155
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, July 17, 2008 - 08:51 am: |
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I met her at the Cave Canem 10 year celebration in NYC.
Thanks Ferociouskitty and knowing Terrance Hayes his loudest response will be a smile....and an errant email.
Much love to ya |
Ferociouskitty
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Username: Ferociouskitty
Post Number: 341
Registered: 02-2008
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, July 17, 2008 - 11:52 am: |
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LOL, yep! |
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