Saturday, February 20th
2 PM, doors at 1:30 PM
Poetry Foundation
61 West Superior Street
Admission is free, however space is limited, please plan to arrive early for a seat
The Three Matadors is the name Every house has given to a ten-page passage of Jay Wright’s book The Presentable Art of Reading Absence (Dalkey Archive Press, 2008) that appears in a hybrid form combining poetry and the conventions of a stage-play. We will attempt an interdisciplinary rendering of this text, impossible to ...
Saturday, February 20th
2 PM, doors at 1:30 PM
Poetry Foundation
61 West Superior Street
Admission is free, however space is limited, please plan to arrive early for a seat
The Three Matadors is the name Every house has given to a ten-page passage of Jay Wright’s book The Presentable Art of Reading Absence (Dalkey Archive Press, 2008) that appears in a hybrid form combining poetry and the conventions of a stage-play. We will attempt an interdisciplinary rendering of this text, impossible to stage in any conventional manner. The highly structured performance commences from intricate bullfighting maneuvers and Wright’s extraordinary poetics of the multi-cultural imagination. This event, devised specifically for the Poetry Foundation, will begin with a contextualizing introduction by dramaturge Matthew Goulish, include a continuous performance sequence, choreographed for the Poetry Foundation’s reading hall, directed by Lin Hixson and performed by Sebastián Calderón Bentin, Stephen Fiehn, Tim Kinsella, and Taisha Paggett, and conclude with a conversation with the audience.
Presented by the Poetry Foundation in collaboration with the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in honor of the 35th anniversaryof the MacArthur Fellows Program, which recognizes exceptionally creative people who inspire us all. A part of In>Time 16 a winter long performance festival in Chicago.
And with support from the MacArthur Funds for Arts and Culture at The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation.
