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Cleaning out the closet – ‘Love, Loss and What I Wore’
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BANGOR – Clothes make the woman in the latest production from Bangor Community Theatre.
For their latest offering, BCT presents “Love, Loss, and What I Wore,” adapted for the stage by Nora and Delia Ephron from the Ilene Beckerman book of the same name. Directed by Irene Dennis, the show – a mediation on the lives of women as reflected through their relationships with their wardrobes – runs through Oct. 24 at Bangor Grange #372 on Ohio Street in Bangor.
All ticketing for the show is in advance. It is also available for on-demand viewing via the BCT website and Broadway World – visit www.bangorcommunitytheatre.org for more details.
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Collaborative project ‘Anon(ymous)’ crosses divides
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ORONO - Students at the University of Maine are collaborating with artists in Kolkata, India to bring an international theater experience to Orono.
Naomi Iilzuka’s “Anon(ymous)” will feature filmed actors in India performing alongside live actors in the Cyrus Pavilion Theatre at UMaine. Co-directed by Dr. Rosalie Purvis of UMaine and Dr. Debaroti Chakraborty of Presidency College in Kolkata, the show will premiere on Friday, October 15 and run through the 24.
“Anon(ymous)” reimagines Homer’s “Odyssey”through a contemporary lens. Anon, a young refugee, journeys through a strange American landscape. He encounters some good people, some weird crackers and some who just don’t care - and he will need all his cunning to find his way home. Think the “Odyssey” meets “American Gods,” but with a broad social conscience. The play explores issues of migration and cultural assimilation that merit discussion, especially given the current political ethos.
(In the interest of full disclosure, I’ll mention that I am a dramaturg for the production, and am also performing as a member of the ensemble.)
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The King of the classroom
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ORONO - A handful of University of Maine students were recently given a wonderful opportunity to engage in discussion with a master of his craft, the one and only Stephen King.
On October 4 and 5, King visited his alma mater to speak with small groups of English undergrads about two of his projects: his memoir and stylebook “On Writing,” and his recent miniseries adaptation of “Lisey’s Story.” I was given the opportunity to attend both discussions.
“What I do is a mystery to me,” said King, by way of introduction. “I’m just an ordinary schlub who happened to luck into this fabulous job.” Throughout Monday’s discussion of “On Writing,” King was insistent: he may understand how to write, but he doesn’t understand why he understands.
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Skate of the union: Bangor Skatepark ramps things up
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BANGOR - Strap on a set of wheels or climb on deck - after years in the making, the new Bangor Skatepark is open for business.
Located in Hayford Park off 13th Street in Bangor, the skatepark features some 7,000 square feet of concrete, complete with ramps and bars for tricks. The City of Bangor’s Parks and Rec department opened the park to the public in early September. Skateboards, bikes, roller skates - and any other wheeled apparatus you can conjure up - are welcome.
For Drew Lohman, a member of the Bangor Skatepark Committee, which advocated for the park’s construction, this is a monumental achievement. “It’s Maine; we don’t have many skateparks here,” says Lohman. “The closest skatepark to Bangor is either Bar Harbor or Augusta. Now that the skatepark is here ... it’s become one of the premier skateparks in Maine.”
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‘Cloud Cuckoo Land’ an epic work of beautiful ambition
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“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” – Joan Didion
Storytelling is baked into the human condition. Throughout the centuries, we have told one another stories intended to educate us or entertain us or simply to help us endure. They are the ties that bind us, the threads of the tapestry into which we are all woven.
Stories have power – power that drives us to preserve them, even in the most difficult of circumstances.
Anthony Doerr understands that power as well as anyone. His new book is “Cloud Cuckoo Land” (Scribner, $30), a segmented saga of wild ambition and staggering scope, spanning centuries as it follows a varied cast of characters through their trials and triumphs. From 15th century Constantinople to a 22nd century starship – with a few stopovers in mid-20th and early 21st century Idaho – Doerr takes us on a journey driven by the power of story. The stories we are told, yes, but also the stories we tell ourselves.
Binding all of it together? An ancient Greek text titled “Cloud Cuckoo Land” by Antonius Diogenes. That tale – also an invention of Doerr’s – serves as this novel’s connective tissue, with excerpts introducing each chapter. That book’s journey within Doerr’s larger tale – lost, then found, then lost again and discovered anew – reflects the transitive nature of story; some live forever, while others disappear.
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