{"id":52,"date":"2022-05-22T22:04:58","date_gmt":"2022-05-22T22:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wronski\/?page_id=52"},"modified":"2022-07-21T18:32:49","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T18:32:49","slug":"creating-kurt-vonnegut","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wronski\/creating-kurt-vonnegut\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating Kurt Vonnegut"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Kurt Vonnegut<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Having earlier developed one actor performance pieces using the words of authors William Saroyan and Mark Twain, actor\/director\/playwright Todd Wronski wished to mark the centenary of Kurt Vonnegut\u2019s birth with a performance piece capturing the distinctive wit and creativity of this remarkable writer.\u00a0 Working with Kurt Vonnegut\u2019s literary estate, Wronski received permission to access a huge amount of the author\u2019s written and spoken words.\u00a0 Researching over a three year period, Wronski assembled hundreds of pieces of Vonnegut\u2019s commentary and humor, some pieces as brief as a clever phrase and some full sentences or paragraphs.\u00a0 Wronski then edited and combined these selections into a biographical performance using the framing device of Vonnegut\u2019s famous tongue-in-cheek lecture regarding the structure of stories.\u00a0 While an occasional change of tense or pronoun may have been made in some cases to aid clarity and narrative flow, what emerged from the process was a performance piece which could accurately appropriate the old Ivory Snow phrase of \u201cninety nine and forty four one hundreths percent pure\u201d Vonnegut.<\/p>\n

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Todd Wronski during rehearsal for Kurt Vonnegut: My Lives’ Stories<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Having earlier developed one actor performance pieces using the words of authors William Saroyan and Mark Twain, actor\/director\/playwright Todd Wronski wished to mark the centenary of Kurt Vonnegut\u2019s birth with a performance piece capturing the distinctive wit and creativity of this remarkable writer.\u00a0 Working with Kurt Vonnegut\u2019s literary estate, Wronski received permission to access … Continue reading Creating Kurt Vonnegut<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4307,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-52","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wronski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wronski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wronski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wronski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wronski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wronski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wronski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}