Robert Frost: This Verse Business

Tue Apr 23 2024 at 07:30 pm to 08:50 pm

Stanford Calderwood Pavilion at The Boston Center For The Arts | Boston

This Verse Business
Publisher/HostThis Verse Business
Robert Frost: This Verse Business
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Emmy-winner (NYPD Blue), IRNE-winner (Man in the Ring), and Tony-nominee Gordon Clapp stars as poet Robert Frost, who “barded” around the country for nearly 50 years, giving sold-out talks to mixed crowds of readers and non-readers alike. Arguably the nation’s first superstar poet, he quipped, “What began in obscurity is ending in a blaze of publicity.”
A beguiling rascal on the platform, the poet "re-lives" his verse from memory, relates his “wild surmises” on science, politics, and religion, and speaks to the purpose and meaning of art. Then, inviting us home, he drops his mask, shares losses and regrets, considers the sources of his poetic inspiration, and picks up his pencil.
“A seamless piece of theater, which Clapp delivers with authentic New England wit and charm…a must-see! (Broadway World)
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Stanford Calderwood Pavilion at The Boston Center For The Arts, 537 Tremont St, Boston, MA 02116-6306, United States,Boston, Massachusetts

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