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The
Aesthetic Realism Theatre Company is proud to present:
SUNDAY,
August 24 & September 28 at 2:30 PM
Rock 'n Roll,
The Opposites,
& Our Greatest Hopes—A Celebration!
Why has rock ‘n’
roll affected people so much? Singing & commenting
on songs from the ‘50s and ‘60s to the present,
we illustrate these sentences from an Aesthetic Realism
lesson Eli Siegel gave to a rock musician:
“Rock ‘n’
roll has the answer to people’s problem of,
on the one hand, wanting to be very private and sad,
and on the other, wanting to have something like sunlight
and public force. Every person has to make a one of
the most secret thing in him and the most public thing.
Rock ‘n’ roll shows it can be done.”
Kevin Fennell • Carrie Wilson
• Bennett Cooperman
Timothy Lynch • Christopher Balchin •
Lynette Abel
Sally Ross • Meryl Nietsch-Cooperman
Marion Fennell • Ann Richards
Alan Shapiro, keyboard • Rob Colavito, drums
Allan Michael, bass
Barbara Allen • Edward Green
Contri.
$12
Aesthetic Realism Foundation
141 Greene St., NYC 10012
In SoHo,
off West Houston
Call for Reservations:
(212)
777-4490
Who We Are
The Aesthetic Realism Theatre Company's productions
are an exciting new dramatic form. Our performances
are based on landmark talks given by Eli Siegel on plays
from world theatre--by Shakespeare, Moliere, Sheridan,
Ibsen, Strindberg, Eugene O'Neill, George Kelly, Susan
Glaspell--and others. We also present, as living drama,
Mr. Siegel's critical discussions of some of the great
novels of all time: Jane Eyre, Huckleberry Finn,
Pere Goriot, Hard Times--to name a few.
Each production--whether of a tragedy
or a rollicking comedy--is a rich interweaving of scenes
and comment, having us see the author's intention, the
motivation of the characters, the meaning of the dialogue--and
what all this says about our lives today. Our performances
have as their basis this principle stated by Mr. Siegel:
All
beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making
one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves.
Both personally and professionally, we're
grateful to Eli Siegel for his understanding of the
drama, literature, and the selves of people, including
our own.
Our repertoire also includes musical productions--with
songs from Broadway, rock 'n roll, union songs, American
folk and traditional ballads, Gilbert and Sullivan--performed
and commented on by the cast.
And--there are special two-part
matinees featuring a theatrical piece, and a performance
by Barbara Allen on flute, and Edward Green on piano
or harpsichord, who speak about works by Bach, Handel,
Mozart, Telemann--and show: We can learn about ourselves
from the very technique of a musical composition!
See a list of the Aesthetic Realism Theatre
Company's Repertoire.
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Shakespearean presentations in our repertoire
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Othello;
or, Clever
and Deep Evil
"According to Aesthetic Realism,
Iago represents the cunningness of evil in every person....He
says to people, Look, if you think you've dealt with
the problem of evil that quickly, by making speeches
about it and smiling at each other--don't
fool yourselves! ... The only way you can fight for
good is to keep on understanding evil and never
get tired. Otherwise, evil will come upon you, and
fool you."
A
Midsummer Night's Dream;
or, Earthy Whirl
 "It
comes to this: Shakespeare bows to a world both shimmering
and obstructive; gossamer and solid; and the play
presents reality in its mysteriousness and solidity.
How is that great mix-up of the world, and all the
confusion in ourselves, to come to anything that is
seen as sensible?....Aesthetics can, while accepting
the utmost in confusion, in the moment of courageous
acceptance see the music that brings it all together.
That is one of the sweet glories of A Midsummer
Night's Dream."
Shakespeare
and Instinct Are There
"The instincts are either going
forward or going away. They are going forward with
amiability or going forward with againstness; or they
are going away with hate or going away with fear.
Roughly, there is a from and to
in the instincts....In the meantime, the instinct
of Shakespeare is working and, it has been thought,
very well. There is an artistic instinct."
The
Taming of the Shrew
 "Shakespeare
was solving a problem through these people in Padua
that he saw as an everlasting problem of persons....Katharina
is the energy in woman looking for a means of showing
itself. Because she hasn't found it yet, she is
in an ill mood. She represents the desire in ourselves
to come to a repose through meeting an energy that
we respect....Once we can see the world as beautiful,
we shall be in a very fortunate position of not
wanting to use our energy in the field of anger
in such a manner that we are displeased with ourselves."
Click
here for more information about Shakespearean presentations
Photograph by Amy
Dienes
The Aesthetic
Realism Foundation is a not-for-profit educational
foundation.
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