Philip Glass Buys a Loaf of Bread

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karlhenning

I was actually playing some Feldman in the background while watching this, and . . . well, let's just say there were powerful synergies!


adamdavid80

Quote from: Brian on November 09, 2008, 03:49:40 PM
As imagined by playwright/genius David Ives.

LOVE David Ives.  Have you ever heard of one called....errrrr...it's been years....something like "The Death of Trotsky"?

It was basically inspired by Ives reading that Trotsky was killed by someone driving a pickaxe into his skull and that he 24 hours later he died.  So the play opens and is spent with Trotsky sitting at his desk writing withthis axe sticking out of his head, acting and carrying on as if nothing unusual is going on!  It's a real fun, funny play. 

Ives also has one called "Sure Thing", which is well worth seeing or reading...any attempt at a description falls well short!!!
Hardly any of us expects life to be completely fair; but for Eric, it's personal.

- Karl Henning

Dundonnell

Quote from: adamdavid80 on November 09, 2008, 04:20:43 PM
LOVE David Ives.  Have you ever heard of one called....errrrr...it's been years....something like "The Death of Trotsky"?

It was basically inspired by Ives reading that Trotsky was killed by someone driving a pickaxe into his skull and that he 24 hours later he died.  So the play opens and is spent with Trotsky sitting at his desk writing withthis axe sticking out of his head, acting and carrying on as if nothing unusual is going on!  It's a real fun, funny play. 

Ives also has one called "Sure Thing", which is well worth seeing or reading...any attempt at a description falls well short!!!

I think that it was a cutdown ice-axe that was used to murder Trotsky rather than a pickaxe. Someone in Mexico was apparently trying to sell it a few years ago! -

http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2005/07/trotskys-ice-axe.html

but you are absolutely right-it was 24 hours later that he died.

adamdavid80

Quote from: Dundonnell on November 09, 2008, 04:31:12 PM
I think that it was a cutdown ice-axe that was used to murder Trotsky rather than a pickaxe. Someone in Mexico was apparently trying to sell it a few years ago! -

http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2005/07/trotskys-ice-axe.html

but you are absolutely right-it was 24 hours later that he died.

Yes!  Ice-axe!  And it was a "gardener" whodunit!
Hardly any of us expects life to be completely fair; but for Eric, it's personal.

- Karl Henning

Brian

Quote from: adamdavid80 on November 09, 2008, 04:20:43 PM
LOVE David Ives.  Have you ever heard of one called....errrrr...it's been years....something like "The Death of Trotsky"?

It was basically inspired by Ives reading that Trotsky was killed by someone driving a pickaxe into his skull and that he 24 hours later he died.  So the play opens and is spent with Trotsky sitting at his desk writing withthis axe sticking out of his head, acting and carrying on as if nothing unusual is going on!  It's a real fun, funny play. 

Ives also has one called "Sure Thing", which is well worth seeing or reading...any attempt at a description falls well short!!!
"Variations on the Death of Trotsky"!

Last year my dorm did "Sure Thing" - absolutely brilliant! And the two actors had a lot of ... is chemistry the right word? I suppose so. So awesome ;D