may we all be heard
words are bells
let them ring!


Thom World Poet Austin, Texas, USA
Global Radical networker and activist for promoting the live Creative Arts,
at every possible opportunity, especially in his home-city, Austin, Texas, USA


Sunday, October 16, 2011

KABUKI SHAKESPEARE


Kurosawa 's RAN(King Lear). His THRONE OF BLOOD(Macbeth)
Wide screen subtitled immersion in another alien culture/land/time/style.Which transcends more?
Juta Mai-immerse yourself in foreign metaphors/lose cultural context/powers
Victor Hugo's LE MISERABLES on London stages/shortened to Le Miz and three hours
Puppets of the Bunraku Theater.Make manipulation transparent!
Adaptation of texts violates contexts.Time capsule Shakespeare language
filters Baz Lurmann's ROMEO AND JULIET less than WEST SIDE STORY's songs
Filmed MY FAIR LADY sleepwalks the politics of staged PYGMALION
Shaw's prefaces more didactic than his dramas-which script survives best?
Sermons on Sundays fall asleep on Mondays.Saturday night revels snore siesta Sundays..
Russian novels /movies as long as Russian winters.Even the snow has subtitles.
Swedish crime noir chills via alienated social class structures.Anonymous strangeness
Cultures fashion ,form ,defame their flowers for export to another stage
Blake means less than Whitman in Disneyland.Who remembers poetry?
Perhaps it seeds exported scripts Bob Dylan Live @the Budokan.
Irezumi tattoos upon San Francisco Castro bikers.Strange fruit
that falls like Edith Piaf in Hollywood adaptations,requires prefaces/subtitles
for the graphic novel to re-present verities like Death Of a Salesman
with the ghosts of Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller re-enacting modern marriage.
 

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