From Bard to Verse
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| Cohosts: | Carl Estabrook & Mindy Manolakes |
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| Genre: | Theater and Arts |
| Day(s): | Saturday |
"From Bard to Verse: A Program of the Spoken Arts" is an hour of poetry, theatre, and chat about them. It's hosted by Carl Estabrook and co-hosted by Mindy Manolakes. Mindy is a well-known local actor, and Carl has also appeared in shows in Boston and Champaign-Urbana.
Bard to Verse (the name should be pronounced in an accent that swallows r's) features frequent guests associated with the lively arts in and around C-U. It presents, live and pre-recorded, things written for the ear as well as the eye, and discussed and performed by a variety of voices, usually those of local actors and performers. As Jean Cocteau said, "Poetry is indispensable, if only I knew for what."
William Gillespie wrote about the show, "Readings have run from Shakespeare's Sonnets to Prince lyrics, and even from 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' to Garcia Marquez and bits of current local productions. Estabrook wants to run the range of brows (high/mid/low) in a sort of idealized English music-hall way; he thinks the sort of aural literacy that one could count on in a Victorian drawing room is rather rarer today, so he'd like to make sure that what is read (or played) is surrounded with explanation, fore and aft. He is aware that talking about poetry may be like dancing about architecture (to paraphrase Laurie Anderson), but believes that talking about poetry is nevertheless important to an appreciation of it. The reasons for and methods of writing a poem may very well be more interesting than the poem. Furthermore, sometimes a poem may help us make sense of the poet’s explanation of it."
