Performance: “A Room in the Trees”

November 17th, 2014 § 0

A ROOM IN THE TREES:

A VISION OF SEATTLE IN POETRY AND PROSE

BY DOUG THORPE

SAINT MARKS CATHEDRAL

NOVEMBER 22, 2014 8:00 P.M.

For Information: dthorpe@spu.edu

Part documentary and part poetry, this is an attempt to evoke something of this place we call Seattle: the people, the land and the water. I follow the thesis of the writer Coll Thrush in his Native Seattle, who speaks of the city as a “crossing-over place:”

The entire city is a palimpsest, a text erased only partially and then written over again. It is a landscape of places changed by power, of Indian places transformed into urban ones and sometimes back again. 

 

Voices 1 & 3: Mary Goldman & Ruth McRee

Voices 2 & 4:   Doug Thorpe & Paul Tomes

Voice 5 (voice of history): Rachel Holley

Music: Marcus Oldham

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