After reading Jerrica's blog entry on Quartet, I decided to give the analysis of this play another shot. What particularly struck me about Jerrica's insight of the play was its attention to sexuality and innocence. Why are the two so closely correlated? Is this idea founded in religion? Why is sex an ungodly act? To say it is sinful is not sufficient. Does sex provide us with revelations about the power of man and not god? In Quartet, the text was very centered on how innocence ruined sexuality. Being innocent was being one step closer to hell.

     The Picasso Les Demoiselles d’Avignon is considered the cornerstone of modern art. When I visited the painting at the MOMA today, I tried to understand why this was the case. In the painting, five women of presumably different ethnicities are standing provocatively.  The woman on the far left of the painting is pulling back a brown curtain suggesting that the women are for show.

    I was very disappointed by the performance of Quartet at BAM last night. To begin, I sat in the last row to the far right of the theater. The direction was not catered towards the back of the audience. Not only could I not see any of the actor’s facial expressions, but I was also extremely distracted. Since the dialogue was in French, there was a screen for English subtitles. The screen was hung on the ceiling and the text was written in a translucent white. I could not fully read the text and it also sped by at an impossible rate to keep up with.

   In the question and answer session after the production of CIVIL warS Wilson stated, “The audience has the same role as the author, the director or the actor.

     At the Common event last night, four poets performed. The first poet was in the process of receiving her masters of fine arts in performance art. Her poetry was experimental and far more eccentric than the other three. The last poem she read, really struck me as brutal. She spoke of a man biting off a woman’s nipple and the relationships between battered women and the men they love. During the question and answer session at the end, the poet admitted that the poem was inspired by a story she had heard from a friend.