*to Jonathan
Once when I knew so little,
My boyfriend said to me he was reading about Subsequent Performances.
You see a performance and the art evolves over them
Over the Subsequent Performances.
So you see a theatrical expressio—be it singing, dance, theatre—
And you see more in it the next time you see it.
Not more meaning, necessarily, although that can happen too.
You see an extension of the original work, reimagined in time.
Before your eyes, through subsequent performances
You find new meaning and new light in the darkness where art evolves.
From the Publisher's Weekly review:
- "he examines the resonances that a play or opera presents to later generations of theatergoersthe period of its 'afterlife'''
- "Miller's advocacy for the virtues of live theater is passionate..."
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