THEATRE
Several Scenes Involving a Decomposing Corpse, Café Cleopatre
by Sarah Fletcher
24.08.2010
At the fundraiser for Several Scenes Involving a Decomposing Corpse at Café Cleopatre, I found myself seated next to a decrepit, decaying mannequin in pearls, as disturbingly pornographic renditions of the Golden Girls played on a projector. The actual play, showing at the self-same venue through this week, delivered on my expectations as a bizarre [...]
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BOOKS
The Shaking Woman, or A History of My Nerves, by Siri Hustvedt, Henry Holt & Co.
by Sarah Fletcher
04.04.2010
Siri Hustvedt’s troubles began in the spring of 2006 at a memorial speech for her late father. As she stood at the podium, her body began to tremble violently from the neck down. She remained lucid, kept her voice calm and proceeded to speak to the stunned audience under the spell of wild and uncontrollable [...]
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