Still Storm

looking toward Nevada last night: before the storm

A quiet evening. Gathering clouds.


During the night, well after midnight, lightning flashes. Long seconds later, thunder more magnificent than the lightning, long rolling deep sonorous bass grumblings.


Toward morning rain, precious desert rain.


Lightning flashes and quickly now, thunder again, glorious Wagnerian booming (made me, to quote Woody Allen, want to invade Poland).

looking toward Nevada this morning: still storm

And this morning, still storm.


The discussion of Peter Handke's play Still Storm / Immer noch Sturm is ongoing here:


http://handke-drama.blogspot.com/


Join us!

All the World's a Stage: Prelude to a Discussion

Tomorrow the discussion of Peter Handke's "Immer noch Sturm" (Still Storm), for which Michael Roloff has set a lavish and thoughtful stage

http://handke-drama.blogspot.com/2011/08/handke-immmer-noch-sturm-still-storm.html

will begin.

The blog address, beyond that first post, is

http://handke-drama.blogspot.com/

It promises to be an innovative form of literary analysis, a back-and-forth dialogue that may produce sparks. That the play is working in me as I prepare for the discussion is evident in the captions below:

Lyn's dill drying reminds me of the apples and goats' milk in Still Storm

young buck on stage but thinking he won't be seen when he browses on the penstemons

the curtain falls, gloriously

Peter Handke's "Immer noch Sturm"

This morning I finished reading Peter Handke's "Immer noch Sturm" (Still Storm), a play that premiered last night in Salzburg.

Three young bucks browsed through the yard as I read, feeling like players in the play that left me shaking my head:

What is this about? I can scarcely think the words I read in the same context as this photo from the performance. Long paragraphs and long sentences that never evoked this scene in my unimaginative brain.

How could what I read possibly be played on stage? I'm too much a reader of prose and too little of plays.

I need to reread and think this through. And that's exactly what I'm planning, with Handke translator Michael Roloff. The discussion will take place here:

http://handke-drama.blogspot.com/2011/08/handke-immmer-noch-sturm-still-storm.html

Wish us luck. Join in the discussion.