Wide Sargasso Sea, Fury and Magic in November…

COMING SALONS
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THIS WEEK THE SOUND AND THE FURY STARTING TUESDAY 01.10 (four week study–only two places available) “Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.”

NEXT WEEK: WIDE SARGASSO SEA ONE meeting study; 5:30-10 PM Friday 11th October
“You can pretend for a long time, but one day it all falls away and you are alone. We are alone in the most beautiful place in the world…”

As I am preparing the wide Sargasso Sea study, I am immersed in Antoinette’s exotic and crumbling world of colonial Caribbean. Race relations are shifting under the strain of an anxious imperialism, the certainty of Western dominance fails in this world of blended cultures and desires. Bronte’s shadow falls on this work, but Rhys is not simply telling the back story of the Madwoman in the Attic. Wide Sargasso Sea explores passion that slips from love to hatred, the danger of roles and masks–acting and being; the imprint of place on a struggling identity, the roots of madness….all in a short work that weaves narrative voices and perspective, leaving stories open and motifs that point to resolution and answers without any finality. The lyric text will frame our discussion: the work provokes and we will gather all perspectives to illuminate this Gothic, postmodern novel.

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