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American Gothic.(Southern Promises)(Theater review)
When Robert Wilson chose the brilliant black performer Sheryl Sutton for his 1970 show "Deafman Glance," he was doing more than following his penchant for strong casting: he was purposefully incorporating blackness into America's primarily white avant-garde theatre. Wilson--Southern born and white--was also subverting the stereotype of the black woman as a domestic Mammy: dressed in a nineteenth-century-style floor-length black dress and sporting an Afro, Sutton's character murdered her own children. After "Deafman Glance," Sutton continued to be a fringe pioneer. She was involved with the now defunct New York-based Squat Theatre, home to many Eastern European dissident ...
- Norfolk Southern Promises New Service, Not Job Cuts, in...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Holcomb, Henry J. March 20, 1997 700+ words
HARRISBURG, PaMar. 20--Norfolk Southern, the railroad that will take over the state's key long-haul freight rail routes after the breakup of Conrail, promised Wednesday that it is coming to Pennsylvania to build new service, not cut jobs. "We look forward to becoming an important partner with
- The key to Robert Wilson: his brilliant theater defies explanation--yet it's...
- Magazine article from: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine) Ehrenstein, David February 27, 2007 700+ words
...s legs hung over the proscenium. Deafman Glance, staged at the Brooklyn, N.Y...imagery put Wilson on the map. Yet Deafman Glance was based on something very real...plate of bones. And that was all in Deafman Glance. God knows where that came from...
- 3 FOREIGN FILMS TO PREMIERE AT MFA
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Jay Carr, Globe Staff December 19, 1988 700+ words
...Rutkowski's short film, "Sunshine Superman," featuring Knowles and his work, and a videotape by Robert Wilson, "Deafman Glance," an adaptation of his overture to the fourth act of his 1971 opera of that name. Knowles, 29, is also known for his...
- Alice. (Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York, New York)
- Magazine article from: Artforum International Goldberg, Rosel Lee January 1, 1996 700+ words
...the stage, for example, suggesting Alice's looking glass, one of Wilson's earliest effects from the Forest Scene in Deafman Glance, 1970, comes to mind. Later, when Dodgson plays a word game with Alice, the backdrop of letters and words recalls a...
- Now at a prison near you
- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London KEVIN JACKSON September 10, 1995 700+ words
...s productions are little short of epiphanies. The elderly poet Louis Aragon, writing of a French staging of Wilson's Deafman Glance in an "open letter" to the master surrealist Andre Breton (who had, incidentally, been dead for several years at the...
- YSL FOUNDATION TELLS A `FABLE'.
- Magazine article from: WWD November 24, 2004 700+ words
...time, should do the second show," said Berge. Wilson, known for such productions as "Einstein on the Beach" and "Deafman Glance," has been immersed in La Fontaine recently. Last year, he staged a critically acclaimed version of "Fables" at France...
- A CIVIL converSation // Avant-garde artist Robert Wilson talks about his visions
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times Hedy Weiss January 19, 1986 700+ words
...it was an extension of my interest in architecture and painting." And that's how Robert Wilson came to make "The Deafman Glance," his first major work for the theater. It was seven hours long. Wilson took "Deafman" to Paris, where it was a phenomenal...
- Report from Queens: art asylum. (the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center's Living...
- Magazine article from: Art in America Hollander, Kurt June 1, 1993 700+ words
...the collaborative work of the Battlefields Crew is also indebted to "early Robert Wilson (A Letter to Queen Victoria or Deafman Glance), the work of David Hammons, the methods of Pina Bausch, the quests of Tony Kushner, the genre struggles of Paul Schrader...
