How I Learned What I Learned
Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2015 9:35 pm
How I Learned What I Learned, a one man play (monologue from the author) by August Wilson.
This was today's theater production. If any of you get the chance -- go see it.
August Wilson is a playwright, one of America's brilliant stars of the stage, (though he always says he is a poet) and he talks about his life.
His ten play cycle on America is wonderful. So if your theater has a production of any play by August Wilson - go see it.
Here is a clip of the production: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixtGRZoPTFw
and I will add that Sy Morocco has figured out how to read when he hasn't learned. You have to watch the clip to understand.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/25/theat ... .html?_r=0
At one point, Wilson recalls the numinous experience of hearing John Coltrane play at a local club. “It remains one of the most remarkable moments of my life,” Mr. Santiago-Hudson says, a shimmer of awe in his voice. Standing with a couple of hundred men and women outside the bar — they couldn’t afford to go inside but were drawn to the passionate cry of the music — Wilson saw how people could be “stunned into silence by the power of art” and divine in it “the power of possibility, of human life.” That’s a fine description of the effect Wilson’s own plays would have in the decades to come, as his art reached maturity and enthralled audiences across the country and throughout the world.
This was today's theater production. If any of you get the chance -- go see it.
August Wilson is a playwright, one of America's brilliant stars of the stage, (though he always says he is a poet) and he talks about his life.
His ten play cycle on America is wonderful. So if your theater has a production of any play by August Wilson - go see it.
Here is a clip of the production: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixtGRZoPTFw
and I will add that Sy Morocco has figured out how to read when he hasn't learned. You have to watch the clip to understand.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/25/theat ... .html?_r=0
At one point, Wilson recalls the numinous experience of hearing John Coltrane play at a local club. “It remains one of the most remarkable moments of my life,” Mr. Santiago-Hudson says, a shimmer of awe in his voice. Standing with a couple of hundred men and women outside the bar — they couldn’t afford to go inside but were drawn to the passionate cry of the music — Wilson saw how people could be “stunned into silence by the power of art” and divine in it “the power of possibility, of human life.” That’s a fine description of the effect Wilson’s own plays would have in the decades to come, as his art reached maturity and enthralled audiences across the country and throughout the world.