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Topic: RSS FeedIF YOU KNEW ARCHER LIKE I KNEW ARCHER.(lead character Archer Aymes in play Talk)(Interview)
American Theatre, October, 2001
Three years ago Melanie Joseph, producer of New York's Foundry Theatre, invited New York-based poet, spoken-word artist and musician Carl Hancock Rux to create a "unique theatrical experience" and to premiere it this winter. Somewhat later she hired Dublin-based dramaturg Jocelyn Clarke to assist in shaping Rux's composition. It took shape as an exploration of celebrity, identity, history and memory, and Rux called it Talk. During a recent workshop at the Sundance Theatre Lab, the Rux-and-Clarke team discovered the dramatic shape and impact of the play, a re-membering ritual for the fictitious author, filmmaker and underground icon Archer Aymes.
(Jocelyn is smoking a cigarette as be flips through the pages of Carl's script, scribbling dramaturgical notes...
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