Figurine: an Operetta
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The video file contains a performance of "Figurine," a 29-minute operetta written in 1995 by Marshall Love for the Undergraduate Research Scholars Program at Texas A&M University. This work was originally recorded on April 29, 1995 on a VHS videocassette. The audio files contain identical recordings of an earlier rehearsal of the performance that took place on March 29, 1995 and was originally recorded on cassette tapes.
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Note from Marshall Love: "This all began inside the pages of a Marguerite Duras novel. I was intoxicated; it seemed she knew all of the things I wanted to think about: I wanted to write a thesis on desire in her books. I began reading criticism on her work--lots of it. the more I read, though, the less enchanting the whole idea of a critical thesis became. In my mind, she defies that kind of analysis. Even the idea of 'analysis' may be wrong in approaching Duras. She makes me think about the writer writing. She makes me think about the whole process of creating, and about desire, filling the empty--skin. She takes me out of the phenomenological and into interiors. The private world of the body."Music by Karl Kunz, Jonah Salih, Ana Salih ; production, Charles Roberts; performer of "She", Cambrey Lindsay; faculty advisor, Melanie Hawthorne
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Self (Philosophy)--DramaDesire (Philosophy)--Drama
Existentialism--Drama
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)--Drama
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Love, Marshall (1995). Figurine: an Operetta. Texas A & M University. Texas A & M University. Available electronically from https : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /195849.