Listen. Carefully.
Nov. 29th, 2008 03:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
libertangoWe as a society, are losing something precious: faith in the power of our voices. Increasingly, we rely on primarily visual or multi-media forms of entertainment to stimulate our hearts and minds. Movies, video games, television and techno-pop music are supplementing storytelling and a capella singing. Even poems are considered to be words on paper rather than sounds in air. My concern over this loss is the inspiration for this production's performance as a reading. The poetry of "J.B." deserves your full attention. So please, settle back in your chairs, pull the habitual cotton out of your ears, and listen. Carefully. Who knows? We may be able to revive in you some faith in the power of the human voice to make us all think and feel more deeply.
-- Elizabeth T. Pyle, circa 1984, from the program for Archibald MacLeish's play "J.B.", which she directed.
Elizabeth's family knew MacLeish, as did the family of my friend Gordon Robison. After a performance, he went up to her and said, "Archie would be proud."
-- Elizabeth T. Pyle, circa 1984, from the program for Archibald MacLeish's play "J.B.", which she directed.
Elizabeth's family knew MacLeish, as did the family of my friend Gordon Robison. After a performance, he went up to her and said, "Archie would be proud."
