Shakespeare in the Park - Macbeth

Shakespeare in Central Park

MACBETH PREVIEWS BEGIN
JUNE 14!
MACBETH
Written by William Shakespeare
Directed by Moisés Kaufman


June 14 - July 9, 2006
Tuesday through Sunday
All shows at 8:30pm!
No performance July 4, added performance July 3.
*Click here for a performance schedule.

Featuring Tolan Aman, Teagle F. Bougere, Sterling K. Brown, Lynn Cohen, Sanjit DeSilva, Seth Duerr, Jennifer Ehle, Amefika El-Amin, Stephanie Fieger, Jacob Fishel, Herb Foster, Phillip Goodwin, Hollie Hunt, Florencia Lozano, Joan MacIntosh, Graeme Malcolm, Michael Markham, Andrew McGinn, Mark Montgomery, Lucas Near-Verbrugghe, Clancy O'Connor, Pedro Pascal, Liev Schreiber, Ching Valdes-Aran

Macbeth takes place in a world torn by war, in which treachery, ambition and superstition rule. Macbeth is a victorious war general who applies the rules of war to domestic politics and in the process turns his country upside down. This savage political thriller has never been more timely.

DELACORTE THEATER
Entrances at Central Park West & 81st Street and 5th Avenue & 79th Street.

Pick up your FREE tickets to Shakespeare in the Park on the day of the performance beginning at 1pm at The Delacorte Theater in Central Park, or from 1 to 3 pm at The Public Theater at 425 Lafayette Street. Tickets will also be distributed in each of the five boroughs on selected dates. Please note, there is a limit of 2 tickets per person.

call 212.539.8750 for more info

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Newly Appointed US Poet Laureate-Donald Hall

Two poems from our new Poet Laureate. One on Love and one on Death. What else is there?


Gold

Pale gold of the walls, gold
of the centers of daisies, yellow roses
pressing from a clear bowl. All day
we lay on the bed, my hand
stroking the deep
gold of your thighs and your back.
We slept and woke
entering the golden room together,
lay down in it breathing
quickly, then
slowly again,
caressing and dozing, your hand sleepily
touching my hair now.

We made in those days
tiny identical rooms inside our bodies
which the men who uncover our graves
will find in a thousand years,
shining and whole.


Affirmation
To grow old is to lose everything.
Aging, everybody knows it.
Even when we are young,
we glimpse it sometimes, and nod our heads
when a grandfather dies.
Then we row for years on the midsummer
pond, ignorant and content. But a marriage,
that began without harm, scatters
into debris on the shore,
and a friend from school drops
cold on a rocky strand.
If a new love carries us
past middle age, our wife will die
at her strongest and most beautiful.
New women come and go. All go.
The pretty lover who announces
that she is temporary
is temporary. The bold woman,
middle-aged against our old age,
sinks under an anxiety she cannot withstand.
Another friend of decades estranges himself
in words that pollute thirty years.
Let us stifle under mud at the pond's edge
and affirm that it is fitting
and delicious to lose everything.


Bio at:
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/264

“Mr. Hall, a poet in the distinctive American tradition of Robert Frost, has also been a harsh critic of the religious right's influence on government arts policy. And as a member of the advisory council of the National Endowment for the Arts during the administration of George H. W. Bush, he referred to those he thought were interfering with arts grants as "bullies and art bashers."

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/14/books/14poet.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Indifference

Indifference

If you took a butter knife
and stuck it in
just two inches
below my ribs
and pulled it out
it would be clean:
then you would know
that I
was done
with you.

Beverly-jane Vasquez
Evolution
Fall 2005
Suffolk County Community College