Portraits, A Canvas of Life Stories
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Opened Sep 21, 2003
Closed Oct 5, 2003
Opened Sep 21, 2003
Closed Oct 5, 2003
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Jonathan Bell's new play Portraits, A Canvas of Life Stories is a collection of personal experiences viewed from the perimeter of events surrounding September 11th, 2001. Directed by Mark Pinter and produced by Vincent Curcio.
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Tragedy can beget art, and the painter in Jonathan Bell's new play Portraits well understands that an event like 9/11 conjures up a great need to make sense of the senseless. Whether or not the result is art is finally a matter of that mysterious combination of talent and technique. Bell takes on the challenge: At the beginning of Portraits, he audaciously tackles the creative process by presenting us with a painter (Christopher Coucill) who witnessed the destruction of the Twin Towers through his window. The artist tells us that he has the necessary skills to paint the horror, the grief, and the heroism of that day; what he lacks, he bitterly laments, is the concept that would propel his sk[...]