Eye and Ear Theater

The Eye and Ear Theater Company was founded in 1979 by Ada Katz, wife of the painter Alex Katz; Roy Leaf, vice president of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture; and theater director Mac McGinnes, as a non-profit theatrical production company.

Description

Inspired by the poet and artist theaters of the 1950s and early 1960s, such as John B. Myers' Artists' Theatre and the

The National Endowment for the Arts, the Lila Acheson Wallace Fund

, the Samuel and May Rudin Foundation, the Kulcher Foundation, the Leonhardt Foundation, and the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts.

Season productions

The Eye and Ear Theater Company strove to produce three plays per season, each developed through collaborations between poets, visual artists, and theater directors, usually with the assistance of other specialists. Among the company's productions are works from both contemporary and past poets. The organization's first production, City Junket written by

W.H. Auden designed by David Hockney. In 1984 Eye and Ear produced the single-act drama Desire Caught by the Tail by Pablo Picasso with sets developed by Linda Benglis. The next year the company produced a play it had commissioned from the poet Alice Notley, Anne's White Glove, on a set designed by Jane Dickson. In 1988 the company produced Kaddish written by Allen Ginsberg and designed by Eric Fischl.^[2]

References

[1] Yarrow, Andrew L. "Theatrical Life on the Lower East Side" The New York Times, May 1, 1988.

[2] Klein, Alan. "Desire Caught by the Tail" The New York Times, June 10, 1984

[fales-3] "Guide to the Eye and Ear Theater Archive 1965-1996 (Bulk 1980-1988) MSS.195". NYU Digital Library Technology Services. May 22, 2017. Retrieved March 7, 2018.

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