Rimbaud in New York: Post-Show Talk

Written and directed by Steve Cosson
The Civilians
Poems by Arthur Rimbaud translated by John Ashbery

Post-show Talk
With Steve Cosson and members of the company
Free for same day ticket holders

Produced by BAM with major support from the Poetry Foundation

With Rimbaud in New York, The Civilians create an original, playful, and enriching inquiry into the meaning and legacy of Illuminations, the visionary 130-year-old book of prose poems that caused a sensation in the world of letters upon its publication and led to Rimbaud’s enshrinement as the archetypal boy genius rebel. Using John Ashbery’s highly acclaimed recent translation of Illuminations as its creative touchstone, the production underscores how these revolutionary poems continue to resonate in the American imagination. The show locates Rimbaud’s legacy in the downtown New York scene of the 1970s, in the 1950s of Ashbery and Frank O’Hara, in the many artists and musicians he influenced—Patti Smith, Bob Dylan, Jim Morrison, David Wojnarowicz, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, among others—and most centrally in the poems themselves, which The Civilians animate through performance, an eclectic theatricality, and song.

 

 

 

 











When: Thu., Mar. 3, 2016 at 7:30 pm
Where: Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM)
30 Lafayette Ave.
718-636-4100
Price: $35
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Written and directed by Steve Cosson
The Civilians
Poems by Arthur Rimbaud translated by John Ashbery

Post-show Talk
With Steve Cosson and members of the company
Free for same day ticket holders

Produced by BAM with major support from the Poetry Foundation

With Rimbaud in New York, The Civilians create an original, playful, and enriching inquiry into the meaning and legacy of Illuminations, the visionary 130-year-old book of prose poems that caused a sensation in the world of letters upon its publication and led to Rimbaud’s enshrinement as the archetypal boy genius rebel. Using John Ashbery’s highly acclaimed recent translation of Illuminations as its creative touchstone, the production underscores how these revolutionary poems continue to resonate in the American imagination. The show locates Rimbaud’s legacy in the downtown New York scene of the 1970s, in the 1950s of Ashbery and Frank O’Hara, in the many artists and musicians he influenced—Patti Smith, Bob Dylan, Jim Morrison, David Wojnarowicz, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, among others—and most centrally in the poems themselves, which The Civilians animate through performance, an eclectic theatricality, and song.

 

 

 

 

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