Scene4 — This Issue: March 2012


	March 2012

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Perspectives

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COMMENTARY

Michael Bettencourt
Poltical Theologies
I don't want to write about this, but it's impossible to remain silent when our politicians, and the whole process that saddles us with them, has become our enemy.

Arthur Meiselman
Fade to White
To you who live in the clean world, the smell, the taste, the health threat of tobacco is the Congo's echo crying: "the horror!" It is enough to drive you mad.

Nathan Thomas
Letter to Ashley
Dear Ashley: Your question has been on my mind often over the past few months. I have to admit that years ago I might have asked the same question.

Les Marcott
The Two Mamets
Mamet aims considerable venom at those on the left who would deny Israel its right to protect itself. Most notably leftist thinker and Palestinian advocate Noam Chomsky.

Claudine Jones
chocklit Kleen
I forget why, but I did update my passport somewhat recently (oh yeah, went to Guam. Oops, blocked that out) & so had
to get a new photo.

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FILM (reviews)
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo · War Horse
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy · The Artist
Four major releases from the end of 2011 present
interesting case studies in adaptation.
Miles David Moore

THEATRE
The Dreamed Imagination
Nozem theatre has become a clearing house for
transformative indigenous theatre in Canada.
Ned Bobkoff

DANCE
Cranko and McGregor:
What A Difference A Half Century Makes
Imagine a bright white stage, glaring white lights
and clamoring modern music.
Catherine Conway Honig

DANCE
Onegin at the San Francisco Ballet
Not only has it not aged in 47 years, it shows
classical dance at an unusual level of inventiveness.
Renate Stendhal


	Springtime, Madness and Muddles or Hitler and Me I confess I'm in a muddle about Hitler and humor. One of the best days of my life was when in 1974, I saw the 1968 original movie version of "The Producers." The film was laugh out loud funny. Kathi Wolfe

		THEATRE A Daring Dramatic Leap After raising the money, casting the play, starting rehearsals, and finding a place to stageit, the playwright found out that his backer had stolen away, leaving a smattering of IOU's behind. Ned Bobkoff


		What Was Learned in Teaching Stein The Steiny Road Poet created and developed an opportunity to teach Gertrude Stein inside the landscape of an art exhibition that focused on this great Modernist. Karren Alenier

	WRITING Amerika For Beginners Mika Oklop America for Beginners rounds out the early years of the tale Mika Oklop began with The Former Future. He lived more than a decade after completing it and continued to write—during those years while he slowly graduated from being a Beginning American to being an Intermediate American—stories that are delightful, anguishing, told in a voice both authentic and startling. Lissa Tyler Renaud

	ARTS OF THAILAND (Painting) Daranee Charoenporn It is the friendship between this writer and artist Khun Daranee Charoenporn who I previously talked to several times since last year that prompts me to reiterate her dedication and effort with oil painting on canvas. Janine Yasovant คลิกเพื่ออ่านบทความนี้ เป็นภาษาไทย


	On the Waterfront The Photography of Jon Rendell

My Daughters Griselda Steiner
Lyric poem for The Queen Of The Night from the musical Hypatia.

Many Dreams: Or Persistence Norman MacAfee
"It is kindness, not money, rules the world". — Emeric Pressburger to Michael Powell
on the meaning of their film I Know Where I'm Going!

Conversations Seldom Overheard [Shadow Talk] Arthur Meiselman
Two men, two drinks, too late in a Singapore bar.

Night Without Light Iri Kopal
Don't say anything. Just get dressed… quick! Before he comes back.

While You Slept Les Marcott
Kay pleeeze. Are you there? Pick up pleeze. Get me outta here!

Madelin Arthur Meiselman
I'm a whirling, twirling, stomping, romping, kiss of a woman... a big, wet, kiss of a woman.

Triptych: The 99% DSCF1719-crs Arthur Meiselman




	In This Issue Sleigh Bells A Play for Voices Who are the voices telling this bizarre story of Christmas past? A modern day Greek chorus? Subconscious interlopers in a sleeping mind? When reality dawns it's as disturbing as the dream. by David Alpaugh Read the Play

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Letters to the Editor Letters to the Editor and Comments.



Karren Alenier The Dresser addresses what's underneath the art.


	Qreviews Q for "quick" - long and short reviews on theatre and film

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

		Les Marcott A Travelling Minstrel Show


	Que Pasa Notices, announcements and coming attractions

		Arthur Meiselman Sights and musings of a time traveler

What Is Obscenity and What's Not?
January 2012 Click Here
A Brief But Quirky
History of the Arts
January 2011 Click Here

The Rising Fall of the Arts
January 2010 Click Here

The One
January 2009 Click Here

What Is Art? / 2008
January 2008 Click Here

View of the Arts/2007
January 2007 Click Here

The Art of Sex in the Arts
February 2006 Click Here

State of the Art of the Arts
October 2005 Click Here


	COMICS My Old Man! Adios... Lewd Behavior An ongoing series by Scene4's resident mad cartoonist Elliot Feldman

	COMICS My Old Man! Life with Fox News An ongoing series by Scene4's resident mad cartoonist Elliot Feldman


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