Paul Attinello

Category: Stage

  • Electric

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    In the midst of packing and printing maps to Zürich, and rather grandly ignoring St. Valentine's Day, and reading bits of Jung and von Franz – and, not least, despairing over a hideous eruption of lint all over my best black jeans, which I'm trying to fix late into the night – I had a…

  • ego

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    My birthday: the twenty-fourth time I've been twenty-nine. … yes, well, okay… I'm fifty two. Saturday's World AIDS Day speech went well. Many compliments, many eyes on me. Tonight's Kagel concert – well, we'll see, but – the rehearsal went well; and Agustín is asking for even more attitude, more theatrics, more… me. Of course…

  • Relational

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    Not quite so sure I won't try to become a Jungian analyst; we'll see. Of course, in any major decision it is good to give up on it at one point, at least… but despite my concerns about age, health, time, cost, logistics, appropriateness, and what might be my underlying (possibly suspect, narcissistic, inflated or…

  • Wrong mountain

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    David Hirson has written two plays – and only two: La Bête (1991), an extraordinarily peculiar tour de force in rhyming verse that actually reached Broadway before flopping and is often done by the braver regional theaters, and Wrong Mountain (2000), a bitter but brilliant piece on devoting your life to the wrong goals (i.e.…

  • Brief Encounter

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    A bit startled, and disappointed, by the film Brief Encounter (1945). The original one-act play (Still Life, from Coward’s Tonight at 8:30) is so utterly wonderful – melodrama perhaps, but such spare, precisely written melodrama, where every character is completely outlined with just a few deft strokes, and the whole story progresses so delicately and…

  • Not amused

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    So, having come home after one slightly disorienting/disappointing trip, I have to leave again for a weekend in London… don’t much want to travel, don’t want to pack, don’t want to create time for two possible side trips or consultations… ah well. I’m going so that I can see a production of Sondheim’s Sunday in…

  • Onyegin

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    Got some work done, working off of a precise list of Things To Do over the next two days. (As they used to say in seminars: it’s amazing how much you get done on the day before you go away for vacation – and wouldn’t it be even more amazing if you could be that…

  • Copenhagen

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    It is the wrong season to see this play. I’m thinking of warm countries, a week in Sitges at the end of the month, making pasta with roast vegetables…. But Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen is on television again, and the last time I didn’t get to see it from the beginning. The intricacy, the overlapping conceptual,…

  • Evanescent

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    Spurious mentioning Handke reminds me, not of the brief writings I’ve read by him (always elegant, exquisitely tooled, even if they do seem to leave the universe a little darker and more hopeless); but of a completely amazing stage work I saw by Handke in 1994, and reviewed for an academic newsletter. I can’t find…