This Issue | Scene4 Magazine January 2017

Finding Resolution Through the Image | Carla Maria Verdino-Süllwold | Scene4 Magazine - January 2017 www.scene4.com

Finding Resolution
Through the Image

Images which revel in the
moment, and in doing so,
make time disarmingly
stand still.

Carla Maria
Verdino-Süllwold

The Right To Love

Two new films make
impassioned pleas for
people to be allowed
to love whomever
they please.

Loving
and
Moonlight

Miles David Moore


	Love At A Distance L’Amour de Loin at The Met. A lyrically shimmering collage of sound. Karren LaLonde Alenier

Is There A Perfect Hate?
And who is the perfect hater in the age of Trump? That would have to be,
hands-down, Tomi Lahren of The Blaze, dubbed the “alt-right princess.”
Michael Bettencourt

Awake with Anthony Hopkins
In the new tv series, Westworld, his portrayal of a lead character offers a
perception of a Master Actor at work regardless of the circumstances.
Arthur Meiselman

Woe Down
Death has popped up his ugly head twice in the last month, only to
watch from his little corner of the room, us on the telephone.
Claudine Jones

The Spirit Is Willing
We were scheduled to produce Behan’s The Hostage. I hadn’t read
the play yet – that was my first mistake.
Nathan Thomas

Master in Two Modes: Thomas Hardy
Its haunting echo-like lines and repeated syllables
evocative of a dreary wind, is a marvel of musical effect.
Patrick Walsh

Bird Is The Word
I’ve never really considered myself a bird person. In my younger
days, “bird watchers” came across to me as old busybodies.
Les Marcott

Critics

Given Donald Trump’s packing a
criticizing wallop in every tweet,
the Steiny Road Poet reopens
her essay on critics and
what critics meant to Gertrude Stein

Karren LaLonde Alenier

The Steiney Road To Operadom | Karren LaLonde Alenier | Scene4 Magazine | December 2016 | www.scene4.com

Oklop Transcendent | Lissa Tyler Renaud | Scene4 Magazine - January 2017 www.scene4.com

Oklop Transcendent

Beyond national
boundaries and history’s
relentless traumas, he can
see that what’s at work is
essentially benevolent.

Lissa Tyler Renaud

Arts of Thailand
Suwit Jaipom

A Bridge to the North featuring the largest
and longest crayon painting in the world

Janine Yasovant
คลิกเพื่ออ่านบทความนี้ เป็นภาษาไทย

Episode 7:
Visions Of Paradise

“If we exclude all the things we don’t want,” said Lady Vermilion, “it’ll just be another fantasy. Humans are not entirely stupid.”

David Wiley

Old Fart Village

Mr. Murgatroyd’s Obsession

Elliot Feldman

King's Legacy Lives | Griselda Steiner | Scene4 Magazine | January 2017 | www.scene4.com

King’s Legacy Lives

Dr. Martin Luther King,
Jr.'s legacy as America's
foremost Civil Rights
leader began in the 60's.

Griselda Steiner

Word Dances

You come into a
theatre and sit down
in a comfortable seat.
The lighting around
you is low, soft,
warm and flickers
like candlelight. No
one talks. It is quiet.

Iri Kopal


	Inspiration Monet had the garden at Giverny; Cézanne, Mont Sainte-Victoire; and Ansel, Yosemite; however my muse just happens to be a parking garage in San Francisco. The Photography of Jon Rendell

	View of Village with Clock Tower · An Artist’s Instruction to Himself The Art of David Wiley

The Wounded Artist
A foundation of healthy narcissism is needed in order to develop the capacity for
valuing one’s unique creative gifts and to withstand the onslaught of public
scrutiny, duplicity and rejection.
Rev. Sheri Heller


	Undress Me Michael Bettencourt In a bar, Laura turns to Stefan and asks him to undress her by word of mouth, in his best mother tongue.


	The Greed Gene Michael Bettencourt A young couple is told by their genetic counselor, the "genie of genes" that their child has the greed gene, and there is nothing they can do.

Scene4 Magazine: Perspectives - Audio | Theatre Thoughts | Michael Bettencourt April 2016 | www.scene4.com


	THEATRE THOUGHTS


	An astute and entertaining array of audio essays on an array of topics by an astute and entertaining essayist.


Letters to the Editor Recent Letters

Qreviews Long & short reviews of theatre, film and more

Que Pasa Notices, announcements and coming attractions


	Karren LaLonde Alenier The Dresser addresses what’s underneath the art

	Miles David Moore Thoughts and observations from, to, for or against


	Les Marcott Dr. Barnabus T. Bynum's Travelling Minstrel Show

	Arthur Meiselman Nightdances


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