Hot Art And Other Plays: And Other Plays

A quick paced word-play theater, post-Yeatsian, post-Steinian, simply the excitement of verbal dance, the play and byplay of voices bouncing out of his head, hilariously so. Plays for spontaneous as well as rehearsed performance. Plays for leader and chorus, crazy word chant playlets. Plays for the love of it. Hot Art, Alfalfa, Left and Right, Captain Armor, Body Palace, The Football Game, A Fifth Apart, Billy the Kid in Bed, Pecos Bill, Each Other, Rabbit Stew and short short plays called Diversions from the poet playwright performer publisher painter composer Larry Goodell. These plays, whether long as in "Pecos Bill" or short as in "The Football Game," move dialogue entertainingly from the characters to the audience. Some can be spontaneously performed, some minimally rehearsed and performed for the audience's pleasure. One is a full length radio drama broadcast as part of a radio performance grant. Some use the reciting chorus but in a new fashion. Some are poetry as theater, poetry fresh and performed. Gino Sky says, "Poetry's a revolution, and Larry's our peace-loving drum major." Ann Waldman says that Goodell presents in his work "A personal vocal mythology of New Mexico expressed in songs of words."