From: owner-aml-list-digest@lists.xmission.com (aml-list-digest) To: aml-list-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: aml-list-digest V1 #995 Reply-To: aml-list Sender: owner-aml-list-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-aml-list-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk aml-list-digest Friday, March 14 2003 Volume 01 : Number 995 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 10:24:12 -0700 From: "Eric R. Samuelsen" Subject: Re: [AML] _The RM_ I very strongly object to the notion that The Princess Bride or Monty = Python have 'a tenuous hold on reality.' Holy Grail and Princess Bride = are anything but tenuous in their connection to reality. A stylized = setting is not the same thing as un-real. Princess Bride is about twoo = wuv, for example, and the absurdities and excesses and also genuine warmth = and human goodness that twoo wuv inspires. Holy Grail is a sharply barbed = commentary on violence, power, and religion. Both are as relevant and = real as any satire. They've just been set in places and times that are = long long ago and far far away. Brecht may have argued for vehrfremdungsef= fekt, but that doesn't mean he argued for works grounded in anything but = concrete reality. Eric Samuelsen - -- AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 12:16:10 -0600 From: Linda Adams Subject: [AML] Re: _Prodigal Journey_ on Clearance Thank you to all those who have responded! I'm posting this here just so I don't miss telling anybody. Calculating shipping is giving me headaches, but it looks like USPS Media Mail is cheapest, and the rates go like this: One book $1.81 Two books $2.26 Three books $3.10 Five books $4.24 Ten books $6.64 . . . based on my estimate that they weigh about 1.5 lb. each. A box for 1-2 costs me $1, and bigger boxes at least $2. So a one-book order totals $6.80, 3 books totals $17.10. Round the pennies down if you want so it's not a pain. Send payments by check or money order to: Linda Adams 425 SW Ward Rd. PMB #136 Lee's Summit, MO 64081 (I just rented that mailbox yesterday, I couldn't send an address out any sooner.) If you haven't done so already, those interested may please send an email to adamszoo@sprintmail.com with your shipping address, the quantity ordered, and any names I should sign on the books. You may also use PayPal, accessible from the order page on my website. (I'm trying to log in and make sure it allows you to fill in your price & shipping, but my dial-up is giving me problems today.) Thanks so much everyone! I've presold about 40 books so far, not counting the two cases my Dad wants. The books will not be arriving until Friday after all; the incoming truck got delayed and they missed the delivery truck today. Linda Linda Adams adamszoo@sprintmail.com http://www.alyssastory.com - -- AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 13:40:51 -0700 From: Margaret Young Subject: RE: [AML] Armand MAUSS, _All Abraham's Children_ University of Illinois Press (Urbana). Hi Jeff. Howzit goin'? ________________ Margaret Young 1027 JKHB English Department Brigham Young University Provo, UT 84602-6280 Tel: 801-422-4705 Fax: 801-422-0221 - -----Original Message----- From: owner-aml-list@lists.xmission.com [mailto:owner-aml-list@lists.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Jeff Needle Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2003 9:30 AM To: aml-list@lists.xmission.com Subject: Re: [AML] Armand MAUSS, _All Abraham's Children_ Who is the publisher? At 04:02 PM 3/6/2003 -0700, you wrote: >Armand Mauss's All Abraham's Children is coming out in a couple of >weeks. Benchmark Books is going to have a signing & discussion on Wed., >Mar. 19, from 5-7 pm. - -- AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 13:58:32 -0700 From: Barbara Hume Subject: Re: [AML] Memory, Words & Truth At 09:44 AM 3/7/03 -0800, you wrote: >Just as the subjective experience of pain is inherently indescribable (but >then, perhaps not really), so the deeply personal confusion and struggle >with sin are indescribable; the euphoric joys of the sense of conversion; >the mind-rocking power of profound revelation; the subtle spiritual >ripples of the bearing of testimony; and on and on. Each of these are >aspects of life that most writers avoid, but which we in LDS literature >must come to again and again in our little sub-genre and try to deal with >truthfully. Jongiorni, I am so glad you have joined the list! This post offers a great deal of material to think deeply about. Not being a profound thinker myself, I enjoy essays like this one, in which you address an issue that has seemed somewhat murky and do a good job of clarifying and refining it. I agree that LDS writers back off from the deepest concepts, and that's why so much LDS fiction is bland and insipid. barbara hume - -- AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 19:01:56 -0700 From: "Gae Lyn Henderson" Subject: RE: [AML] Value of Fairy Tales That sounds pretty accurate, that "desire is the root of unhappiness," but it even the partial fulfillment of desire seems quite amazingly wonderful. So what do we do about such rooted unhappiness? Do we learn to live with what is and not desire? I admit I tell myself a fairy tale at night while I try to fall asleep. How different is that from prayer? Gratitude--is that the answer to the unhappiness of desire? Do testimony meetings, public expressions of gratitude teach us to rewrite desire as fulfillment? My father almost always leaves church in an ecstacy of gratitude and thanksgiving. Can he be my real father--I'm so different! But no, I know he's my real father because why else would tears come to my eyes every time I hear his wonderful feelings expressed? Gae Lyn Henderson - -----Original Message----- I like fairy tales. I like them a lot. I just finished "retelling" a Japanese fairy tale called "The Stonecutter." A friend asked me to do it so he could illustrate it. As it was translated it was nothing more than a cute story. But when I read it I knew it was a tale intended to illustrate the Taoist teaching "desire is the root of unhappiness." I believe that is also a Buddhist teaching. That is the value I see in fairy tales. They illustrate profound teachings. I'm working on a juvenile novel with American Book Publishing right now. When I wrote it I was intending Magical Realism" like Gabriel Garcia Marquez, but I'm sure some well meaning individuals will refer to it as a fairy tale. Paris Anderson - -- AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature - -- AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 18:25:50 -0600 From: Jenn & Jason Covell (by way of Jonathan Langford ) Subject: [AML] Lance LARSEN, _Erasable Walls_ (Review) Lance Larsen. _Erasable Walls_.Publisher: New Issues Pr Poetry Series; 1 Ed edition (May 1, 1998) Paperback: 64 pages (hardback also available) ISBN: 0932826601 Reviewed by Jason Covell. If Richard Dutcher is the Mormon Spielberg, and Sam Cardon the Mormon John Williams, then I have found the Mormon Derek Walcott. I had him there, briefly, six years ago, and then lost him. But now he's found, and his name is Lance Larsen. I won't be losing him again. Way back in December 1996, I made my first (and so far only) trip from Australia to the United States and stayed with good friends in Alpine, Utah. I had only been baptised six months and was full of a new convert's excitement, and there I was in Utah breathing the same air as the prophet. I was pretty light-headed. One day I picked up the Deseret News (or the Church News, I was too new to tell the difference) and found a poetry section. Read the first poem that stood out to me. Wow. Amazing verses, refined, subtle. About a man bringing a young boy into a dry font, showing him how he is going to be baptised one day. I read through it once, twice. A prickle ran down my back. This is the real thing, I said out loud to whoever was there in the room. Stabbed the paper with my finger, saying, you've got to read this. A real poem by a real poet. I had no expectation of finding such a thing. But there it was, jackpot first time. Then, in my haste to make sure that everyone read it whether they wanted to or not, the paper got mislaid. What was the poet's name, the name of the poem? I had no idea. Never mind, I'll find another copy. Except I never did. Six years passed, and I never forgot that poem. In that time, I discovered AML-List, Eugene England, Richard Dutcher, Eric Samuelsen, Margaret Young and others. Mormon lit, Mormon cinema, even Mormon belles lettres. Every time I heard of a poet, I tried to find out, is it him? It never seemed to be so. And then a week or so ago, I found something. A poem on the internet, under an article in Meridian Magazine. It wasn't the same one I had read before, but within a few verses I knew this was the guy. The voice, diction, everything- it was unmistakably him. Lance Larsen is his name, and the subject of the article is his first collection titled _Erasable Walls_. (Article at http://www.meridianmagazine.com/poetry/030108exaltingprint.html) The article gives three poems from the book in their entirety, and a quick Google search later, I had a fourth from Lance Larsen's BYU website. Bingo. It was the same one I had read six years before, titled "Water". I read it again, a happy reunion, but the happiest thing was that I liked its siblings from the Meridian article even better. This is therefore an odd review. I haven't read _Erasable Walls_.It's on order from Amazon (deseretbook.com has no record of the title) but I am so entranced by the four poems I do havefrom it that I just can't wait for it to arrive. I have to talk about these poems, and why I think Larsen is the real thing, the biggie. First, a sampling, from "Funeral Home": To his left, scalpels fanned out like silverware. Behind him, a power drill with industrial bits. Even then I knew this was not about careers. But who cared? He was explaining the slow dissolve of the body, how it unlocks itself to the blade. The lines are creepy yet oddly comforting. The gut-wrenching power of the medical examiner's tools (I especially like the industrial bits) is nonetheless subordinate to the skill and steady hand of experience. And pitch-perfect images in those last few lines. There is no blood or guts, sawing or scraping. This is a master's hand. Or indeed the Master Himself. (I speak from some contrary experience here. In a human anatomy class, in another lifetime, I had the opportunity to dissect an untouched human leg. The experience was drawn out, frustrating, and culminated in my completely severing the sciatic nerve, the thing I was supposed to preserve, in a last fevered bit of cutting.) The immediate theme of the poem is the inner self. The physical discoveries inside corpses left behind by their owners are all moral revelations. The poem's very first lines contrast the healthy lungs of an 84-year-old woman with the brown, vile lungs of a middle-aged heavy smoker. The ME mentions the drunks, junkies and deadbeats he has known. "Draining them, he said,you feel / this energy, either good or bad... It's a matter of accumulation, / what you take in." The poem ends with these lines: His voice lifted me straight onto the table. Razored me open. He was reaching in. My stomach. My liver, my kidneys. Lifting one organ at a time. I wasn't afraid. I wanted it this easy - The heart something you could weigh in the palm, goodness as simple as turning down a smoke. I can't do justice to the deftness, the lightness of touch, the sizzle of these lines. But then suddenly there's that very last phrase. At first glance, it seemed to convey a whiff of didacticism, a glib, too-easy moral summation. Then I re-read it, carefully this time, and found much more delicacy. Straight to mind also came Derek Walcott's "The Light of the World", another meditation on aspects of goodness, which climaxes on a similar note of naked, almost embarrassing openness: O Beauty, you are the light of the world! Derek Walcott's ferns obligingly curl themselves into question marks, frigate birds fly to the beat of scansion. The substance and material of life runs seamlessly into the substance of the page. Larsen's viscera on the slab are part of the fleshly table of his poem, and they are weighed in the balance, hopefully not found wanting. Easy? Simple? As easy as writing a poem about how the most frail, fallible, decaying flesh leads to that which is exalted. In another poem, "Errand", he writes: Your errand, tongue, to know the exact savor of the world's flesh. Then to translate beyond it. ... What nourishes. What sometimes rots. How even worms prepare us. Explaining why a poem takes the breath away is rather like explaining why a joke is funny. The subject is dead before it leaves the table. I'm a poor critic of poetry; in fact, I'm no critic at all. I just adore what poetry, new-minted language, can do. (OK, I have to admit, I'm also a hopeless Walcott fan... I could go on about him, but that isn't really on topic.) All I can really say, be it clumsily or not, is that Larsen's poems speak for themselves. Read them, and be amazed. Jason Covell - -- AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2003 12:29:26 -0500 From: "Tracie Laulusa" Subject: [AML] Sam PAYNE, _Railroad Blessing_ (Music Review) Sam Payne. _Railroad Blessing_. (CD). Produced by Steve Lemmon and Sam Payne Mastered at Spiral Studios, St. George Utah. All copyrights held by Sam year 2002 It can be ordered via a link on Sam's website: www.sampayne.com, or wherever CDs are sold in Southern Utah. Reviewed by Tracie Laulusa. I hesitate to call this a review. I am a musician--classical flute. And though I listen to a variety of musical genres, I am not knowledgeable enough to write an educated review of folk music. All I can do, then, is give a listener's opinion. Music has been a topic of limited discussion on AML, but I first met Sam Payne as a writer, not a musician, on the MPL (mormon poets list). Over the last few years he has posted many of his lyrics there. As poetry, they work. They are varied, thought provoking, readable, rythmic without cliche. While reading them, I have looked forward to eventually hearing the whole sound. I was fortunate enough to hear a little bit of a sneak preview once when out in UT for a CES symposium. Meeting Sam and hearing some of his music--just him and his guitar, has probably influenced how I listen to his CD. I've found that I enjoy reading books and listening to music by people that I sort of know, perhaps a degree more than I would have if it was someone I had no connection with. It feels a little bit like visiting with a friend. I have the same response to works I visit after hearing or reading an indepth interview with the artist/writer. First--my gripe. The shipping! I don't know about the rest of you, but $5 for shipping seemed a bit much. I have heard that CDs are overpriced to begin with, since they cost less than tapes to produce, and then $5 shipping! I have a feeling Sam's not the one raking it in either--unfortunately. And then the first shipment somehow went astray. On the positive side, once I notified the company handling the cd, they shipped another one promptly, and then followed up to make sure I got it. So, on to the music. Many singer/songwriters seem to write from personal experience. If you know about their life you can trace the beginnings of many of their songs. Or they are about the ever present pop themes of love and sex. Railroad Blessing's lyrics run a gamat of experiences that I doubt Sam has personally had--being in space, sending a son off to war, climbing Everest, being a mother......yet, he writes convincingly. An astronaut might not come home and write the same song Sam wrote, but he could have. And, though it wasn't an Ohio farmer who wrote Ohio Son, and stood in his fields thinking of other fields, I can picture him standing there. (BTW, I may be interpreting some of these songs not as intended. I'm giving you the how-I-read-them). These two songs in particular also touched a cord with recent events, though they were written before the space shuttle blew, and we started seeing some of our friend's units called up in preparation for war. Not all the lyrics make total sense to me. But that's ok, even a plus. More to think about the next listen. I like the sound of this CD. The musicians do an absolutely fine job. And they sound like they had a great time doing it. There is a good mix of background sound. Just piano to a pretty full sound. That said, one perhaps draw back of the cd for me is that there isn't much change of pace. But then, I haven't taken the opportunity to just sit and listen and analyse. I put it on, then am off doing all the things that need doing, with kids usually talking my ear off. So, from a casual listen, a bit more tempo variety would probably been a plus. Congrats Sam. This will be one I wear out. Hope some other listers take the opportunity to give it a listen. Tracie Laulusa - -- AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 06:13:18 +0000 From: "Andrew Hall" Subject: [AML] 2002 Year in Review: Theater (pt 2) Here is an alphabetical list of the 2002 plays, including a few I didn't=20 mention in the review. I annotate them with some of my notes. Adams, LeeAnne Hill. Yellow China Bell. BYU, May-June. Author a BYU Masters' student. Snider said it was good, well-acted, disturbing. A. Equally strong Deseret News review. Arrington, James. Streetwise. UVSC One-act festival, 2002. - ------, J. Golden. Jan, Trolley Square. Brown, Bill. Throwing Stones. Villa Little Brown Theatre, April- May. Comedy about a rock star buying a house. Eric Snider did not review it, but did write a mocking column about it in August. Clearly he thought it was pretty bad. Cobb, Tony (book, lyrics), Karrol Cobb (Music). The Promised Land. SCERA Showhouse II, Sept-Oct. Lehi and his family. Reviews on Players Anonymous were split on it, they especially like the music. The Brothers Cobb also wrote "Robin Hood: The Musical", which was performed twice in Utah Valley in 2000-2001. The Cobbs also worked on Savior of the World. Cornell, Stalion. Utah! Tuhancan, September. Music by Kurt Bestor and Sam Cardon, lyrics by Doug Stewart. Cornell the nom-de-plume for Jim Bennet, a former administrator at Tuhancan and a Sandy City official. Son of Bob Bennet. The fifth version of the play. Back after being on hiatus for a few years. Shorter, refocuses on Hamblin and his dealings with the Indians. Avoids Paxton's focus on polygamy and MMM. Threlfall directs. DN says it is pretty good, but the script still needs work. Peachiness cut down, but still there. Too many plot lines, the comic relief goes too long. Choreography rips off other plays. Fales, Steven. Confessions of a Mormon Boy. Twice in SLC in 2001. NYC actor Fales' show about his struggle and eventual acceptance of his same-sex attraction, resulting in his excommunication. Monologue, comedy, sings, dances. 2002: New version including more about his life in NYC directed by Tony-award winner Jack Hofsiss. NYC in June, three city tour in September: San Francisco, Las Vegas, and SLC back at the Rose Wagner Center. Hoping to do an off-Broadway run. Hale, Ruth and Nathan. Educated Heart. Hale theater, July. Snider says it is his favorite Hale script, gave it a B. Good production. Handcart Ensemble. The NYC theater company took 2002 off. Next season starts Winter 2003 with The Brome Cycle, a series of short, medieval plays that dramatize the Book of Genesis Helps, Louise. The Day After. Won the 2002 3rd Villa Arts playwriting contest. Jessica Woodbury and Jaren Hinckley won second and third places. Honorable mention was given to Jeff Bierhaus, Loren Lambert, Alan Mitchell and Bonnie Vernon. LaBute, Neil. bash: latter-day plays. March, Dallas. - ----, The Shape of Things. Premiered in 2001. Laguna Playhouse, Laguna Beach CA, June. Can Stage, Toronto, Sept-Oct. Aurora Theatre Company, Berkeley, CA, Sept-Oct. LSU, Oct. Published by Faber and Faber, 2001. - ----, The Distance From Here. Premiered at the Almeida, London. May-June 2002. UK tour in July. Was to be performed on Broadway in 2002, but it was replaced by The Mercy Seat; it will be produced in the 2003-2004 season. - ----, Land of the Dead. September 11, NYC. A one-act play, part of the three-day Brave New World memorial benefit for the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attack. Stared Kristin Davis (Sex in the City) and Liev Schreiber. A man tries to force his girlfriend to have an abortion. - ----, The Mercy Seat. Acorn Theater, MCC production (on 42nd street), New York City, Dec 2002.-Jan. 2003. Added four performances. NY Times reviewer thought it was monotonous, had little of the energy of Bash. Good acting, though, from Liev Schreiber and Sigorney Weaver. Similar review from the Village Voice. The Distance from Here and The Mercy Seat were both published by Faber and Faber, 2003. Larson, Melissa Leilani. Wake Me When It's Over. July, Where?? Larson is a BYU student. Eric Samuelsen and Nan McCulloch highly recommended it. She rented the theater, the first production there. About a couple, he suffers from chronic fatigue. Relationship struggles, and he meets another women in an internet chat room. AML 2002 Drama honorable mention. Also appearing was a ten-minute play by Amy E. Jensen, Variations on a Theme of Cinderella. A funny but slight feminist reshaping of the fairy tale classic. - ----, A Play About A Movie. BYU WDA workshop, Oct. (Title will change). A comedy about female film directors in the silent film era. LDS Church. Light of the World. Conference Center Theater, February, for the Olympics. Big, impressive production, muddled script. Over 1000 person cast. "Massive song-and-dance sequences, scenes of handcart pioneers stranded on the plains of Wyoming, snatches of Mormon theology and stories of Olympic medalists." Pantomimed to a pre-recorded soundtrack. Tries to cover the bases of Mormonism, Olympic history and universal brotherhood. A bargain at $5. - ----, Savior of the World. First appeared in 2000. Conference Center Theater, Nov. =96 Dec. Big spectacle, bland script. McColm, Reed. Together Again for the First Time. BYU-Idaho, Jan-Feb 2002. Previously at BYU, 1985, Ricks, 1986, Playmill Theater, ?, Comedy, two divorcees try to build a new family. Gideon Burton spoke highly of it. - ----, Hole in the Sky. BYU Idaho, November-December. About the World Trade Center on September 11. 15 fictionalized individuals on several upper floors of the north tower of the World Trade Center after first impact and how they try to survive and cope with their situation. Its two-week run was sold out, and was held over for three nights. 2002 AML Drama award. McLean, Michael and Kevin Kelly. The Ark. Thanksgiving Point, May. Revised version, it has been around since 1998. Enlargement of part of Celebrating the Light, a Young Ambassadors show by McLean. Was strengthened by its participation in the 12th Festival for New Musicals. Also at the Village Theater in Issaquah, WA in 2001, where it will return in 2003. Snider gave it an A. Strong Deseret News review as well. Ivan Lincoln rated it #5 in his top ten of 2002 semi-professional plays. Eastern Arizona College, Oct. Starlight Mountain Theater, Garden Valley, ID, Dec. Nelson, George D. and Daniel Larson. Soft Shoe. BYU, October. Book, lyrics and direction by Nelson, a faculty member, and additional lyrics, music and musical direction by Larson, an undergraduate. Musical comedy set against the backdrop of vaudeville's fading days, a story of hope and young love blossoming among the thorns of the secret past of an estranged father. Three actors, including Marvin Payne. Oviatt, Joan. The Sixth Wife. Off Broadway Theater, SLC, June. BYU Nelke, Sept. Oviatt also acts in the one-woman show. She has written several books about heroic Mormons. It was first produced at BYU, and later had a 24 1/2-week run at the Edinburgh Festival of Arts. Based on the life of Emmeline Wells, the fifth president of the Relief Society. June was a private production, directed by James Arrington, not part of the Off Broadway Theater season. Pearson, Carol Lynn and Lex de Azevedo. My Turn on Earth. Center Street Theatre, Sept-Oct. Premiere of the new Nauvoo Theatrical Society and Center Street Theatre. Directed by Bronson. Very good reviews by Parkin and other AML and Players Anonymous viewers. Originally produced around 1977. Roberts, Laird. Last Dance in the Heartland. Screenplay read at BYU WDA workshop, Oct. About a small farming town facing a wave of foreclosures from the local bank. To be directed by Kirk Strickland. Roberts is a photographer and writer who has also worked on the technical crew of several Utah films. He published a novel with Cedar Fort in 2002. Rogers, Ralph, Jr. Joseph and Mary: A Love Story. Music by K. Newell Dayley and John Morgan. The Bountiful Performing Arts Center, December. Managed the Pages Lane Theater, PVT, and Polynesian Culture Center. Mission Prez in Somoa:1970s. Acted, directed, and wrote plays and church films. Died in 1996. Good review in the DN. Salt Lake Acting Company. Cabbies, Cowboys, and the Tree of the Weeping Virgin. February, for the Olympics. Short plays, about 10 minutes each, several with Mormon references. Including: Mike Dorrell, "The Dome" about pioneers building the church house the SLAC now uses as a theater, Julie Jensen, "Water Lilies" David Lee's "Incident at Thompson's Sough," a narrative poem set in a rural Utah community, "Eager" by Mary Dickson, about a young LDS woman whose departing missionary boyfriend has spread rumors about her, "The Unsettling" by Pete Rock, a mysterious and chilling monologue about a young LDS girl drawn into a hallucinogenic world of methamphetamine and possible madness. The scripts were also published and sold at the theater. Included in the publication, but not performed, were Wendy Hammond's "The Story of Thaddeus Dopp", J.T. Rogers' "Seven Lies of an Unbeliever", about an incident at Temple Square, and Terry Tempest Williams' "The Promise of Parrots." Samuelsen, Eric. Magnificence. March, BYU Margetts. Adapted (a lot) this Medieval play. Together with Everyman. Snider gave them a B, I'd say it was better than that. - ----, Peculiarities. October, Villa. Mormonism and sexuality. Young couples making bad decisions. Good review in the SL Tribune, "a brave exploration of what often bubbles just underneath a seemingly virtuous society." Mostly good AML-list reviews, except for Parkin, who said he couldn't see the point. - ----, Mount Vernon. BYU WDA workshop, Oct. About the last day in the life of George Washington. He's visited by a modern African- American history professor, who promises Washington a few more years of life in exchange for . . . Slover, Tim. Joyful Noise. 1996. Handel composing The Messiah. 1996 AML drama prize. Lancaster PA Fulton Opera, Jan. Willows Theater Company, Concord, CA. April-May. Manchester College, Manchester IN, May. Bus Barn Stage Theatre, Los Altos, CA, Nov- Dec. Nauvoo Theatrical Society, Center Street Theatre, Orem. Nov.-Jan. Snider gave it an excellent review, A-. Playing to small crowds at first, improved over time. Lots of excellent AML- list reviews. Good DN review. Bad New York Times review of the Lancaster production ruined its chances at an Off-Broadway run. Slover's screenplay version won second place in the 2002 International Screenplay Competition, sponsored by the American Screenwriters Association and Writer's Digest. - ----, Hancock County. BYU, Feb. 2002. Cultural Olympiad. The Carthage martyrdom and the trial of five men a year later. Snider gave it an A-. 2002 AML Drama honorable mention. Stewart, Doug. Saturday's Warrior. Music by Lex DeAzavedo. Draper Historic Theater, Aug. - ------, Almost Perfect. Music by Merrill Jenson. UVSC, Nov. Premiere of a 1940s style big band/swing musical, set in 1941. Con man falls in love. No LDS characters. Cute but cheesy. Very bad reviews in the Deseret News and Herald, they said the script was very derivative and generally flat. Snider gave it a D+. Sundgaard, Arnold. Promised Valley Old Social Hall, This is the Place Heritage Park, July. Deseret Dramatic Association. Music by Crawford Gates, originally produced in 1947. Part of the Pioneer Festival, pared down considerably from the original, cast- of-hundreds spectacle. Young, Margaret Blair. I am Jane. Feb. 2002, BYU Varsity Theater. Thom Duncan directing. July, Southern California. Andrew Hall Fukuoka, Japan _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* =20 http://join.msn.com/?page=3Dfeatures/junkmail - -- AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 11:19:56 -0700 From: Jennifer Vaughn Subject: [AML] Frederick Wiseman Event in SLC - -----Original Message----- From: David Anson Sent: Tuesday March 11, 2003 10:08 AM To: VMH Hey listserve moderator :^) Don't know if this is AML-worthy or not, but I thought some folks interested in film/documentaries/etc. in Utah might be interested. Subject: VMH's Bill Matson on panel March 24, following Domestic Violence I & II on PBS on March 18th & 19th Details at bottom. Way to go Bill. Subject: Re: Domestic Violence I & II on PBS on March 18th & 19th FREDERICK WISEMAN For thirty years, filmmaker Frederick Wiseman has created a body of work that has examined American institutions. Over time these films have become a record and put on record basic principles of our "work in progress" democracy. He started his career with the still controversial film Titicut Follies, a film about a Massachusetts hospital for the criminally insane. The film was banned for over twenty years. He then turned his attention to one institution after another: a high school, a racetrack, a seminary, a city's welfare system, military basic training camps, a slaughterhouse that allows us to have meat on our tables. Wiseman will be in residence for a weeklong retrospective of his work teaching masterclasses everyday from 4-6pm at the new City Library and exhibiting films and lectures with Q&A every evening March 23rd-27th in venues throughout the community. This is an unparalleled opportunity for educators, social workers, students, filmmakers and thinkers to examine a body of work and dissect it together with Wiseman. Director, editor, visual poet, social critic and ironist, Wiseman's regard for the ordinary and often invisible voices in our large and complex nation put him in the company of Raymond Carver and Studs Terkel. He is a storyteller who confounds social scientists with an unflinching eye and patient ear. Wiseman's recent films Domestic Violence 1 and Domestic Violence 11 will be broadcast nationally on PBS on March 18th and 19th. All events are free and open to the public. Mr. Wiseman's visit is made possible by the Salt Lake City Film Center and the College of Humanities at the University of Utah who will be co-sponsoring many evening events as well as the David P. Gardner Lecture in the Humanities and the Fine Arts and related events. For a complete schedule of events as well as descriptions of master classes and each film go to www.slcfilmcenter.org and www.hum.utah.edu/humcntr EVENING PROGRAMMING WITH FREDERICK WISEMAN Monday March 24th: City Library Auditorium, 7pm UNDERSTANDING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: A COMMUNITY EXPLORATION. Wiseman will show excerpts from his films DOMESTIC VIOLENCE I and II and then encourage a community discussion that will be jointly hosted by The Salt Lake City Film Center, KUED, The YWCA and the Peace House. Leaders from shelters, academia, law enforcement and social services will be invited to come and share their experiences. Panel participants at the discussion include Bill Matson and Julie Epperson, both members of the CTTN-IW. The public is invited and encouraged to watch the PBS broadcasts on March 18th and 19th. - -- AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature ------------------------------ End of aml-list-digest V1 #995 ******************************