Spoon River Apology, November 26, 7 PM, Green Kill Sessions
Green Kill Sessions presents Spoon River Apology, Tuesday, November 26, 7 PM.
We regret to inform you that the event has been canceled due to illness. The refunds, minus processing fees, have been issued to the same email address you used to purchase tickets. We plan to reschedule the event in the spring.
Green Kill Sessions presents Spoon River Apology, Tuesday, November 26, 7 PM.
1916, the poet Edgar Lee Masters published Spoon River Anthology, a book-length poem which demythologized life in small-town America. The poem was conceived as a series of short epitaphs, in which the town’s dearly departed reached out to the living, the town's dearly departed reach out to the living.
Spoon River Apology, offers a similar portrait of another, more contemporary community, the fictitious town of Woodspoon, New York. Written by Mikhail Horowitz, the staged reading will be performed by Horowitz and Sarah Chodoff, Steve Clorfeine, Celeste Graves, Gilles Malkine, Pamela Pentony, David Smilow, and Judy Tierney.
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Spoon River Apology
Back in the pre-digital days in 1916, the poet Edgar Lee Masters published Spoon River Anthology, a book-length poem which demythologized life in small-town America in the late 19th- and early 20th centuries. The poem was conceived as a series of short epitaphs, in which the town’s dearly departed, the town's dearly departed reach out to the living, address the living, recalling significant moments in their lives and setting the record straight.
Tonight’s program, Spoon River Apology, offers a similar portrait of another community, the fictitious town of Woodspoon, New York. Whereas the original Spoon River had a country doctor in a horse-drawn carriage, Woodspoon has a Reiki practitioner driving a hybrid; the Baptist preacher of the original poem becomes a Buddhist rabbi . . . you get the picture. Written by Mikhail Horowitz, the staged reading will be performed by Horowitz and Sarah Chodoff, Steve Clorfeine, Celeste Graves, Gilles Malkine, Pamela Pentony, David Smilow, and Judy Tierney.
Mikhail Horowitz
Mikhail Horowitz is a widely castigated poet/performance artist and the author of Slapstick Gravitas (Station Hill, 2022) and Big League Poets (City Lights, 1978), among other books. His performance work has been featured on seven CDs, including The Blues of the Birth(Sundazed Records), a collection of jazz fables. With Gilles Malkine, his partner in performance crime, he has lowered property values at many venues in New York City, among them Theater for the New City, Westbeth Theater, St. Mark’s Poetry Theater, St. Peter's (the “jazz church”) and the Village Gate, among others. He believes that life is hopeless, but not serious.
Performers
Sarah Chodoff
Sarah Chodoff misspent much of her youth as an actress performing at various Off, Off-Off, and Not-Very-Well-Off-Broadway theaters, as well as running away from home to join regional theaters around the country. Along with Mikhail Horowitz and David Smilow, she was a long-time member of Actors and Writers. Nowadays she can often be seen and heard playing upright bass in old-time string bands.
Steve Clorfeine
Steve Clorfeine has been making work with movement,
theater, improvisation, film, words, clay and collage for most of his life. He recently published a new collection of poems
and short prose, Seeing You Again, and has been compiling
a book of travel pieces, along with a theater/performance sourcebook, Playfulness and Mindfulness: Improvising from the Inside Out. He has been fortunate to have Buddhist teachers and the opportunity to present his work in many countries. Locally, he has hosted a writing group that’s been meeting for 20 years.
Celeste Graves
Celeste Graves has been dancing for as long as she can remember. Becoming a movement artist has been a journey of joy, discipline, and discovery. Collaborating along the way with musicians, other dancers, actors, poets, therapists, and other creatives, Celeste considers nature, taichi and love to be her greatest teachers and influencers, contributing to her “physio-spiritual” approach to healing, happiness, and performance art. She recently received a grant from Shout Out Saugerties to present four seasonal performances. Her current passion for ancient qigong practices, especially a thousand-year-old dragon form, has inspired a dramatic performance piece, ending with the clan of dragons flying off into the sunset.
Gilles Malkine
Gilles Malkine hails from Woodstock and has been on stage practically all his life, including the 1969 Woodstock Festival, in which he played in Tim Hardin’s band. He’s been acting and singing and playing guitar as well as violin, percussion, and other instruments, and has been in countless theatrical and film productions both with music and without. He’s a composer and singer/songwriter/humorist in the folk genre, and a guitarist who accesses a wider scope of music. His music/comedy performance partnership with Mikhail Horowitz spanned 35 years and included music, poetry, parody, satire, songs, theatrical skits, and videos.
Pamela Pentony
Pamela Pentony appeared as a principal in the first rock opera on Broadway and went on to star in the titular role in Iphigenia, with Tommy Lee Jones and Patti LuPone, under Joe Papp at The Public Theatre. She performed in London at The National and the Young Vic, appeared in festivals throughout Europe, and as a jazz vocalist, she sang in the clubs of Paris, at the Edinburgh Jazz Festival, and toured with a big band for several years. She has worked with Barry Manilow, John Prine, Muddy Waters, and Dusty Springfield, among other artists, and has received several awards for voice-over work, notably the American Women in Radio and Television's (AWRT) award.
David Smilow
David Smilow has been living and working in the Hudson Valley for over 30 years. In wide and constant demand, his most recent tour de farce was in Greater Tuna with Wallace Norman at Byrdcliffe Theater. In January, he'll be appearing in Performing Arts of Woodstock's production of Mark St. Germain's Dancing Lessons. On occasion, he has been cajoled, coerced, or flat-out duped into performing Mikhail Horowitz's material. Sometimes, alas, he even appears on the same stage with the man.
Judy Tierney
Judy Tierney is a performing poet and has taught in schools and senior centers, as well as on street corners. Love of the spoken word and improvisational movement have led to collaborations with musicians, dancers, and poets for over 25 years, along with the creation of a poetry-themed radio show. Part of a trio, she toured for a dozen years, presenting an original arrangement of poems and music based on the diaries of Etty Hillesum, a Dutch woman who died in the Holocaust. The tour included an invitation to perform in Belgium and Poland at the centenary celebration of Hillesum’s birth.
