The Silent Waiter ~ March 13

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The American Legacy

220 East Fourth Street ~ New York, New York 10009
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On the eve of Jim's wedding, he and best friend Hal dine and drink into the night. Amid the usual pronouncements on life and love, Hal reveals his own history with Jim's fiancée. Their mutual recognitions take the evening, and their lives, in a most unexpected direction, all under the eyes, or perhaps the guidance, of a silent and mysterious waiter.
A macabre and soulful inquiry into devotion, ideal love, and the meaning of death, THE SILENT WAITER is symbolist poet Kreymborg at his philosophical best.

ALFRED KREYMBORG (1883 -1966) was one of the Provincetown Playhouse artists who hailed from a working class background, and whose sympathies ever lay with the workers of the US and the world. A prolific poet as well as dramatist, and early adopter of free verse, his voice sang among the modernists of the age.
With Man Ray, he founded literary magazine "The Glebe," in 1913, and first published Ezra Pound's Des Imagistes. In 1915, he founded "Others: A Magazine of the New Verse" with Skipwith Cannell, Wallace Stevens, and William Carlos Williams, and was an early promoter of give Marianne Moore. He co-edited "Broom, An International Magazine of the Arts, with Harold Loeb from 1919 to 1924, and beginning in 1925, edited the annual American Caravan volumes of new writing. Meanwhile, his prolific outpouring of poetry and drama continued through publication of 1950's No More War and other poems. Best known are his puppet plays "Lima Beans" and 'Manikin Minkin," and his verse drama for NBC radio: "The Planets: A Modern Allegory." His autobiography, published in 1925, is "Troubador."

Kreymborg was also a National Master chess player.


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Saturday, March 13, 2021 8 PM *(Plays through 3/17/21)* The beginning is just the end... directed by Laura Livingston featuring Kyle Maxwell and Kevin Melendez Graphics by Anne Fizzard with a post-show talk, led by Brenda Murphy, PhD University of Connecticut
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On the eve of Jim's wedding, he and best friend Hal dine and drink into the night. Amid the usual pronouncements on life and love, Hal reveals his own history with Jim's fiancée. Their mutual recognitions take the evening, and their lives, in a most unexpected direction, all under the eyes, or perhaps the guidance, of a silent and mysterious waiter. A macabre and soulful inquiry into devotion, ideal love, and the meaning of death, THE SILENT WAITER is symbolist poet Kreymborg at his philosophical best.
ANNE FIZZARD (Graphic Art)
ALFRED KREYMBORG (1883 -1966) was one of the Provincetown Playhouse artists who hailed from a working class background, and whose sympathies ever lay with the workers of the US and the world. A prolific poet as well as dramatist, and early adopter of free verse, his voice sang among the modernists of the age. With Man Ray, he founded literary magazine "The Glebe," in 1913, and first published Ezra Pound's Des Imagistes. In 1915, he founded "Others: A Magazine of the New Verse" with Skipwith Cannell, Wallace Stevens, and William Carlos Williams, and was an early promoter of give Marianne Moore. He co-edited "Broom, An International Magazine of the Arts, with Harold Loeb from 1919 to 1924, and beginning in 1925, edited the annual American Caravan volumes of new writing. Meanwhile, his prolific outpouring of poetry and drama continued through publication of 1950's No More War and other poems. Best known are his puppet plays "Lima Beans" and 'Manikin Minkin," and his verse drama for NBC radio: "The Planets: A Modern Allegory." His autobiography, published in 1925, is "Troubador." Kreymborg was also a National Master chess player.
LAURA LIVINGSTON (director) has directed several plays at the Metropolitan Playhouse, including State of the Union and the Jazz Singer, as well as Radium Girls, which is on hiatus. Most recently, she has enjoyed directing Enemies for the Metropolitan Virtual Playhouse. Laura is the Artistic Director of Freestyle Repertory Theatre (www.freestylerep.org), who's online offerings include the improv/writing show/jam mashup, WRITE AWAY!