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...play premiering at the Spoleto Festival U.S.A. in Charleston, S.C., has successfully made the transfer to Broadway. This one will. In Monday After the Miracle, William Gibson takes up the saga of Helen Keller and her teacher, Anne Sullivan, some 20 years after the events recorded in The Miracle Worker. In that play, Sullivan led the deaf and blind Keller in a long night's journey into light. The sequel is quite different. This is a tale of fiercely kindled passions and the bittersweet bondage of entwined destinies...
Christopher Keene, 35, of the Syracuse Symphony and Long Island Philharmonic. The most flamboyant of the five, Keene has already held a variety of music directorships, including those of the Spoleto Festival and of Art park, a state park for the arts in Lewiston, N.Y.; he frequently conducts at the New York City Opera. Keene is a master of the grand gesture and can make the sparks fly even in a piece as reflective as Britten's War Requiem. An exponent of new music, he led the U.S. premiere in 1981 of Philip Glass's visionary opera, Satyagraha...
...only 14 when the market collapsed," says the narrator-hero early in this drama, "but for us it fell apart in small pieces." In The American Clock, premiering at the Charleston, S.C., Spoleto Festival, Arthur Miller is picking up the pieces of a national trauma. The shock waves of the '29 crash and the ensuing Great Depression stunned families, businesses and an entire society, engulfing them in anguish, fear, hopeless unemployment and abject despair. The tremors are still felt...
Tennessee Williams was lionized this past week at the second annual Spoleto Festival U.S.A. in Charleston, S.C., but there was more to it than celebrity worship. Williams was on the receiving end of a wave length of personal affection that surely extends far beyond Charleston. It is not difficult to guess why. Over many years, and in all of his plays, Williams has brought to his characters, who are wounded in heart and bruised in spirit, the healing hands of a dramatic poet of great compassion...
...respond to any size art. For the show of mid-century Americans called "Subjects of the Artist" (one of six exhibitions opening this week), David Smith's Voltri sculptures are displayed in a room that provides witty drama: they are ranked on steps imitative of the Italian amphitheater at Spoleto where they were first shown...