Aurelia’s Oratorio – it’s the real thing (art)
Victoria Thierrée Chaplin and her daughter Aurélia Thierrée are amazing. If you are in the Boston area, go see Aurelia’s Oratorio at the American Repertory theater before it closes Jan 3. Such a pleasure. Funny, beautiful, sad. Also excellent for children, older people (we had grandma in tow, she loved it), and foreign guests because no words that matter, it’s all physical theater. Boyfriend sat down in foul mood from snow, forgetting something, worry that his senile mother would ask questions loudly throughout performance, etc. Within less than a minute after the lights went off and Aurélia began, he was ecstatic.
It reminded me of how much I cherish real performances by talented people. It’s so important. And it makes me so sad that audiences at Amrep are always mostly rich old white people (like us) Who else can afford it?
And now I’ve just learned by Twitter that Harold Pinter has died. Sad.
“One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.” Harold Pinter
Image: from Amrep.org
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