I saw this play Friday night, even though it’s going to be part of el Festival de Teatro Alternativo, FESTA 2018, which I’m here to see, I thought I’d get started early and free up some time on schedule, which is for me is already full. It turns out that this play was originally created collectively in 1975 by Teatro Candelaria, and directed by Santiago Garcia, and became part of the company’s repertory. (There are some very […]
Leer en español. I wanted to find the Irish bar, the one I had seen the day before. It was somewhere very close to the Parque Central of Antigua, of that I was sure. I recalled that it was named Reillys en la Esquina on the outside and Reilly’s on the Corner on the inside, but whatever corner it was in or on, it sure wasn’t this corner. Fortunately, I had downloaded the Google map of Antigua, […]
Very much enjoyed this BBC Radio feature, recommended to me by Dan Hanrahan. Some reactions: 1. The fame of the the Fountain, it’s importance, resides in the aura of meaning attached to it; and that meaning, without a doubt, was attached to it by Marcel Duchamp. 2. This sort of achievement in the art world is nonetheless deeply tied to issues of originality and precedence: once and only once in history (well, in the history of Western Culture) […]