{"id":8,"date":"2022-05-16T18:48:28","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T18:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wronski\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2022-07-21T18:37:54","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T18:37:54","slug":"kurt-vonnegut-my-lives-stories","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wronski\/kurt-vonnegut-my-lives-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Kurt Vonnegut: My Lives&#8217; Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2022 marks the one hundredth anniversary of Kurt Vonnegut\u2019s birth.\u00a0 To celebrate the occasion, Dickinson Theatricals and fringe veteran actor Todd Wronski bring this theatrical portrait of the writer to Edinburgh.\u00a0 Using Vonnegut\u2019s legendary tounge-in-cheek analysis of how stories are constructed, Vonnegut\u2019s many lives are surveyed, ranging from his mid-western upbringing in Indiana, through his World War Two experience surviving the fire-bombing of Dresden and his long career as a novelist, humorist and social commentator. \u00a0This production brings to life one of the twentieth centuries most distinctive and well-loved literary figures.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_170\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-170\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-170\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wronski\/files\/2022\/07\/thumbnail_IMG_0461-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wronski\/files\/2022\/07\/thumbnail_IMG_0461-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wronski\/files\/2022\/07\/thumbnail_IMG_0461.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-170\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Todd Wronski during rehearsal for Kurt Vonnegut: My Lives&#8217; Stories<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Dickinson Theatricals and Todd Wronski have produced many shows in Edinburgh over the years, most recently presenting <em>Mark Twain Abroad<\/em> in 2011.\u00a0 Dickinson Theatricals also paired Wronski with British actor Tom Watson in the new play <em>Dickens and Twain: A Special Relationship<\/em> and also presented <em>In My Case an Exception Should Be Made<\/em>, a one-actor portrait of Armenian-American writer William Saroyan.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_167\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-167\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-167\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wronski\/files\/2022\/07\/thumbnail_IMG_0376-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wronski\/files\/2022\/07\/thumbnail_IMG_0376-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wronski\/files\/2022\/07\/thumbnail_IMG_0376.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-167\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Todd Wronski<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Working with the literary estate of Kurt Vonnegut, writer Todd Wronski has assembled this performance piece using exclusively the written and spoken words of Vonnegut.\u00a0 Through the weaving of hundreds of thoughts, musings observations and jokes, Vonnegut emerges in all of his rich complexity, which the Chicago Tribune describes as the \u201cusual contradictory mix of joy and sorrow, hope and despair, humore and gravity.\u201d.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">What the critics have said about Todd Wronski\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cWronski delives some stirring soliloquies\u201d <em>The Scotsma<\/em>n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u201cTodd Wronski brought some nicely judged comic touces\u201d <em>The Stage<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2022 marks the one hundredth anniversary of Kurt Vonnegut\u2019s birth.\u00a0 To celebrate the occasion, Dickinson Theatricals and fringe veteran actor Todd Wronski bring this theatrical portrait of the writer to Edinburgh.\u00a0 Using Vonnegut\u2019s legendary tounge-in-cheek analysis of how stories are constructed, Vonnegut\u2019s many lives are surveyed, ranging from his mid-western upbringing in Indiana, through his &hellip; 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