“And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.” —T.S. Eliot FST’s John Farrell returns to his hometown of Concord, Massachusetts, for a noontime, July 15 recitation of T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets at 51 Walden, Concord’s performing arts consortium. The Egg Rock […]

I returned February 4 from a very full ten days in Tucson, Arizona, as a guest of The Rogue Theatre. Beyond the opportunity to shirk snow-shoveling duties (I departed from Logan Airport in blizzard conditions that delivered over 50 inches of snowfall during a well-timed absence), my time in Tucson offered a chance to deepen […]

T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets The Rogue Theatre in Tucson, AZ Sunday, February 1st at 2:00pm Tickets available for $20 An unquestioned masterpiece of 20th-century literature, T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets is a complex, deeply moving meditation on time, memory, and human striving toward the divine. John’s recitation of Four Quartets affords audiences an opportunity to immerse […]

FOUR QUARTETS A RECITATION FROM MEMORY OF T.S. ELIOT’S POETIC MASTERWORK ACCOMPANIED BY BEETHOVEN’S A-MINOR STRING QUARTET Four Quartets recited by John Farrell A-Minor String Quartet (Opus 32) performed by ◦ Joel Pitchon – violin ◦ Katherine Winterstein – violin ◦ Ronald Carbone – viola ◦ Volcy Pelletier – cello Tuesday, December 2, 2014 at 7:30 PM Helen […]

Artistic Director John Farrell heads off next week to Ontario, Canada, for a presentation of Four Quartets on March 17. At the invitation of Queen’s University Professor Gabrielle McIntire, author of Modernism, Memory and Desire: T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf, John will recite the four-poem cycle of Eliot’s masterwork, and then meet with graduate and […]