Four Quartets in Portland
FIGURES OF SPEECH THEATRE PRESENTS
FOUR QUARTETS
A RECITATION FROM MEMORY OF T.S. ELIOT’S POETIC MASTERWORK
Performed by John Farrell
Flute Interludes by Carl Dimow
Thursday, November 6, 2014 at 7:30 PM
Portland Ballet Studio Theater
517 Forest Avenue Portland, Maine
tickets $20 • reservations suggested
207-865-6355 or quartets@figures.org
“John’s recitation was both technically flawless, and poetically stunning, astonishing in the sheer impressiveness of speaking aloud from memory a piece of poetry that is known for its philosophical riddles, its paradoxes and reversals, and its deeply contemplative and ruminative tone.”
-Gabrielle McIntire, Professor of English, Queen’s University
“We come to understand that we’re watching someone who’s been on an amazing journey through the landscape of Eliot’s text and then come back to invite us to venture forth with him. That’s an unbelievably generous gesture – a rare one – and I think the audience understands this and responds accordingly.”
–Norman Frisch, Film and Performance Specialist, J. Paul Getty Museum
“The modesty of the performance belies both its power and Farrell’s prodigious mastery of the poems’ intellectual images and sensual intricacies.”
–Kristin M. Langellier, Professor of Communication, University of Maine