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Astronomer Anna is struck by a car and develops aphasia, disrupting her academic career and relationships with her daughter and lover. She later tries to recover and deliver her research at a conference in Paris. The play was inspired by director Joseph Chaikin's experience of aphasia after a stroke.
A non-narrative performance work composed of poems rather than a conventional plot, bringing together the writing and performance collaboration of Shepard and Chaikin.
A lone speaker on a bare stage tells the story of a nameless man and shifts into other voices, including a mother, a worker, and a voice addressing a blind person. Percussion accompanies the monologues.
An Old Man imprisoned for a murder rooted in an old family feud is interviewed by a young woman claiming to be a reporter. Their eight conversations are interspersed with childhood-memory monologues by both characters.
Astronomer Anna is struck by a car and develops aphasia, disrupting her academic career and relationships with her daughter and lover. She later tries to recover and deliver her research at a conference in Paris. The play was inspired by director Joseph Chaikin's experience of aphasia after a stroke.
A non-narrative performance work composed of poems rather than a conventional plot, bringing together the writing and performance collaboration of Shepard and Chaikin.
A lone speaker on a bare stage tells the story of a nameless man and shifts into other voices, including a mother, a worker, and a voice addressing a blind person. Percussion accompanies the monologues.
An Old Man imprisoned for a murder rooted in an old family feud is interviewed by a young woman claiming to be a reporter. Their eight conversations are interspersed with childhood-memory monologues by both characters.