http://codepoetics.com/poetix/2009/11/15/bit-of-stanford/ better than fun Fri, 23 Jul 2010 19:03:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://codepoetics.com/poetix/2009/11/15/bit-of-stanford/comment-page-1/#comment-32977 notdominic Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:04:15 +0000 http://codepoetics.com/poetix/?p=1455#comment-32977 The Maeterlinck play was set as an opera by Albert Wolff and also, I believe, as a ballet - or at least two of the Fossils dance the parts of Mytyl and Tyltyl in Noel Streatfeild's 'Ballet Shoes'. Several of the Maeterlinck plays were written for marionettes (which is perhaps a good thing, as it would be very embarrassing for humans to have to utter some of the lines on stage...). All heavily symbolist, and, to modern ears, mostly naff. But then he did write Pelly & Melly, and won a Nobel Prize... The Maeterlinck play was set as an opera by Albert Wolff and also, I believe, as a ballet – or at least two of the Fossils dance the parts of Mytyl and Tyltyl in Noel Streatfeild’s ‘Ballet Shoes’. Several of the Maeterlinck plays were written for marionettes (which is perhaps a good thing, as it would be very embarrassing for humans to have to utter some of the lines on stage…). All heavily symbolist, and, to modern ears, mostly naff. But then he did write Pelly & Melly, and won a Nobel Prize…

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