Participation Type
Performance
Session Title
Session 1.03 Literature
Presentation #1 Title
THE SINGER
Presentation #1 Abstract or Summary
I wish to perform a dramatic reading of my short story, "The Singer," from THE LAST BIZARRE TALE [UT Press, 2014], I perform, as an actor would, both voices of two men in an unbroken duolog as they conduct conflicting comments on a documentary movie that is being shown [only referred to, no actual movie on a screen] in the basement of a church to raise money to finish the film, which is critical of federal government programs to help Eastern Kentucky. The two men also refer to the camera man, a mute, who is showing the film, and who has intercut views of a legendary gospel singer who wandered the mountains, singing. This is a solo performance, requiring only a microphone.
At-A-Glance Bio- Presenter #1
Author of over 50 books, including 4 books of stories and 10 novels, described in a book about my works, DAVID MADDEN: A WRITER FOR ALL GENRES. Robert Penn Warren Professor of Creative Writing, LSU, Emeritus.
THE SINGER
I wish to perform a dramatic reading of my short story, "The Singer," from THE LAST BIZARRE TALE [UT Press, 2014], I perform, as an actor would, both voices of two men in an unbroken duolog as they conduct conflicting comments on a documentary movie that is being shown [only referred to, no actual movie on a screen] in the basement of a church to raise money to finish the film, which is critical of federal government programs to help Eastern Kentucky. The two men also refer to the camera man, a mute, who is showing the film, and who has intercut views of a legendary gospel singer who wandered the mountains, singing. This is a solo performance, requiring only a microphone.
