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In a Dark Time the Eye Begins to See: Michelle Memran Interviewed
Interview
The director of The Rest I Make Up reflects on the life and companionship of María Irene Fornés.
November 21,
María Irene Fornés and Michelle Memran in Havana, Cuba, Photo by Alison Forbes.
María Irene Fornés was a Cuban American award-winning playwright and teacher whose work and sheer force of personality have influenced generations of artists. She is also the subject of Michelle Memran’s documentary, The Rest I Make Up, which recently had a weeklong run at MoMA.
The Rest I Make Up is an exquisite and intimate portrait of friendship between Memran and Fornés, made over fifteen years, showing two creative people learning from and with each other. In the film Fornés, who is facing the challenges of Alzheimer’s disease, struggles with memory loss, but her artistic perspective on the world remains intact.
At turns, funny, smart, sad, and poetic, The Rest I Make Up examines th
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Maria Irene Fornés reclaims the stage at MCLA
‘The wildness comes from despair?
‘… Sometimes it comes because something has changed inside. A light has gone out … something that makes us feel joy, feel compassion, feel for others.’
A group of friends are keeping a light alive for each other. They are talking in a lighted room on a winter night, like college students in a dorm or actors in a coffee shop.
In The Summer at Gossensass, internationally acclaimed Cuban-American playwright Maria Irene Fornés follows three women fascinated by Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler in the months when the play was first written — as they stand together for the right to create, to define their own experiences and choose their own intimate relationships.
&#;I had never read a play that so completely explored my own experience of being a woman in this world&#; — MCLA professor Laura Standley on Maria Irene Fornés
Across the 60 years and more of her career, Fornés has had a profound influence on theate
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The Ford&#;s Theatre Legacy Commissions
Ford’s Theatre presents a new artistic initiative for BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Color) playwrights that will broaden the American theatre canon. Established in , with first workshops in , the Ford’s Theatre Legacy Commissions serves as an artistic incubator for stories about social justice and racial history and explores the varied experiences of underrepresented characters and lesser-known historical figures, including unsung heroes responsible for changing the course of civil rights and equality in American life.
The Commissions process will include extensive development, encompassing first readings, developmental workshops and world premiere productions within the next decade. The Commissions initiative fryst vatten led bygd Ford’s Theatre Senior Artistic Advisor Sheldon Epps, Director of Artistic Programming José Carrasquillo and The Ford’s Theatre Legacy Commissions Advisor Sydné Mahone.
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