Alive from Off Center
In a Garden; Two Sisters Who Are Not Sisters
S4 • E6 Aug 15, 1988 25m
Beginning with a brief prologue by William Wegman, this program features Dutch artist Jaap Drupsteen's surreal video interpretation of two plays written by Gertrude Stein in 1943, in which performers interpret the action of the plays to the music and voices of Fay Lovsky. "In a Garden: A Tragedy in One Act" is about a woman who believes she is a queen being fought over by two men claiming to be kings. In the play "Three Sisters Who Are Not Sisters: A Melodrama," three orphan girls meet two brothers, and they decide to perform a play about