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"Celebrating the Birthdays of Dead Writers"Project
At-A-Site Theater Artistic Director Monika Gross
Celebrating the Birthday of PL Travers, the author of "Mary Poppins,"
in Times Square, August 9, 2014
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Celebrating the birthday of Eavan Boland
the afterlife of the written word
Come to the
Fundraiser for Claire Barrett's Center for Connection + Collaboration
Saturday, September 24, 2022 from 1:00pm onward
65 Coleman Avenue, Asheville NC
Come drop by between 2:00pm to 6:00pm and enjoy an intimate one-to-one reading of your choice from a menu of Eavan Boland's writings by Monika Gross of At-A-Site Theater
Coming Up:
Celebrating the Birthdays of Dead Writers:
the afterlife of the written word
A Tour of Feedstores & Flea Markets in North Carolina and South Carolina
TBA
Performing "Celebrating the Birthdays of Dead Writers: the afterlife of the written word"
on the birthdays of John Steinbeck and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
at the Anderson SC flea market, February 27, 2015
NEWS FROM 2016
I am honored and very pleased to be the recipient of the 2016 North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship for Playwriting.
Thank you to the NC Arts Council and to the National Endowment for the Arts, which delegated the federal funds for these fellowship awards!
More information about the 2015-16 NC Artist Fellowships here
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OUR ONGROWING PROJECT
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CELEBRATING THE BIRTHDAYS OF DEAD WRITERS
An intimate street theater performance honoring the afterlife of the written word
We live again when the words we wrote are read aloud to you, the Listener
PHASE THREE: WINTER 2016
Performed at Outdoor Flea Markets in South Carolina
PHASE TWO: SUMMER 2015
Performed in Ireland and New York City
PHASE ONE: Summer 2014
Asheville NC + New York NY
"Celebrating the Birthdays of Dead Writers:
The Afterlife of the Written Word"
Opened June 19, 2014
Closed August 31, 2014
Celebrating Edgar Lee Masters' birthday
by reading his poem "Thomas Ross Jr." from Spoon River Anthology randomly chosen by a passerby
August 23, 2014, Asheville NC
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PROJECTS CURRENTLY IN DEVELOPMENT
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We reaving
A theatrical COMPOSITION BY FIELD of the co-respondence
between/
denise levertov + robert duncan
Adapted from the letters & poems of Denise Levertov + Robert Duncan
“All the accumulated weight of their years of intimate and shared trust invests with excruciating poignancy and force the final barrage of letters in which they stood, toe to toe, and battled it out till their long friendship lay in irreparable ruins about them.”
from the introduction by Albert Gelpi to "The Letters of Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov"
"Butoh-fu: a dance of listening"
Catch the pleasure of transformation through words
100 movements can be no match for one transformation
'Butoh-fu' is the name given to the poetic word image notations recorded by butoh dancers to guide and inspire their dances.
Individuals are invited to randomly select short texts by Kazuo Ohno (1906-2010) and Tatsumi Hijikata (1928-1986), the founders of butoh.
These texts are then read out loud to the listener as s/he is encouraged to close eyes and experience butoh dance by imagining a physical metamorphosis inspired by the words.
photo by Ken Fitch