The light goes on and you can see, there is a chair before a typemachine, some paper, a old day bed (over the bed, a picture of Ted Hughes), candles and a lot of timber beam on the stage. The actress Dagny Dewath is sitting on the chair. She declaims from Plath's poem "Lady Lazarus":
Dying
Is an art, like everything else,
I do it exceptionally well.
I do it so it feels like hell.
I do it so it feels real.
I guess you could say I've a call.
She described the life of Sylvia Plath. The love with Ted Hughes. The self doubts. She is screaming and typing with the typemachine on paper. It's very emotional! Piano music in the background.
In the end, she drive with nails and two timber beams a cross and went out of the stage.
I liked the stage play a lot. Even if you don't now the lyrics from Sylvia Plath, you understand a bit of her life and work.
2 comments:
Sounds like a very interesting play! If it tours, I will certainly look out for it!
Just a minor correction, the band who sing 'Bloody Ice Cream' are called Bikini Kill. Quite an influential band in the 1990s. Helped invent the 'riot grrl' genre and it's definitely true to say that S.P. was a big influence on most of the bands within that type of music.
In fact, prior to starting up riot grrl band Hole; Courtney Love read 'Lady Lazarus' at her audition for the Mickey Mouse Club tv show. Needless to say she did not get the job. But Plath was always a big influence in her work!
Sylvia was the first riot grrl? Interesting premise.
Oh, I certainly hope there was more to Requiem than that.
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