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Humana Festival Review: Wild Blessings, A Celebration of Wendell Berry
Even being the professional English Major that I am with a degree in poetry, I had never delved so much into the work of Wendell Berry as I just have in the production of “Wild Blessings: A Celebration of Wendell Berry,” but now I feel as though I must go buy a book of verse.
This is an Actors Theatre original, adapted for the stage and directed by the troupe’s artistic director Marc Masterson with music by Malcolm Dalglish, a hammer dulcimer player from Bloomington, Ind., who has found the melody in Berry’s free verse.
Berry is the Mad Farmer who espouses an existence that celebrates hard work, free thinking, and simple and sustainable living, and his poetry strives to not break the silence from which it sprang (I paraphrase).
Oddly enough, one of his admonitions is to live clear of screens, but one of the beauties of “Wild Blessings” is the multi-media components with layers of projected images: A large screen of a window center stage and scenes of nature projected onto a cyclorama behind.
This is the second play of the festival (so far) that seems created by committee, though “Wild Blessings” is a walk through the forest where “Ameriville” was a helicopter flight over a disaster area.
Both have their uses, but I particularly like the stroll, especially when accompanied by the likes of the gentle Mad Farmer.
Official site: The Humana Festival of New American Plays
Review of “ Ameriville”
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