One more tortured artist; very sad.
Dave had posted the Times obit.
He seems to have been more responsible than anyone for the monologue as a new hybrid form, which has become almost too popular. It has the advantages of being literary without requiring the audience to read, and theatrical without requiring much in the way of staging. You get a night out with artistic pretensions, but it’s not too demanding. With a couple of props this gets called performance art, but it’s basically autobiographical storytelling. In lesser hands it can be deadly, but I guess he was pretty engaging.
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Dave had posted the Times obit.
He seems to have been more responsible than anyone for the monologue as a new hybrid form, which has become almost too popular. It has the advantages of being literary without requiring the audience to read, and theatrical without requiring much in the way of staging. You get a night out with artistic pretensions, but it’s not too demanding. With a couple of props this gets called performance art, but it’s basically autobiographical storytelling. In lesser hands it can be deadly, but I guess he was pretty engaging.
- alex 3-10-2004 10:55 pm