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  1. The Little Prince Meets Artificial Intelligence

    Every year, sometimes twice a year,  I return to one of my favorite theatre gigs, directing a staged reading for The International Voices Project. IVP is a Chicago company that produces staged readings of plays translated from other countries and cultures. Throughout the years the plays I’ve directed have taken me on journeys with writers from Syria, Lebanon, Ireland, Germany, Norway, Ukraine, El Salvador, and now Romania.

    The reason I return each year is one of the reasons I have pursued and enjoyed my life making theatre. I get to touch and explore worlds, cultures, and ideas I would never have had the chance to experience otherwise. It’s always an adventure into something new.

    My most recent gig with IVP certainly scratched all of those itches. The play is called Veronica’s Little Prince by Romanian playwright Dr. Catalina Florina Florescu. Yes, Antonie de Saint-Exupéry’s character of The Little Prince plays an important role.

    The piece centers on Veronica, a former principal ballerina who has literally had her legs taken out from under her in a mysterious accident, leaving her in an institution, unable to move without the aid of a wheelchair and unable to speak. Unhappy with her fate Veronica is suspected of wanting to kill herself. Even before the mysterious accident she’s lived a life of self-destructive behavior.

    The Little Prince arrives to help her examine and uncover the truth within her actions.

    There’s another twist. I mentioned that Veronica can’t speak. In a technological twist she communicates via an AI robot by typing on her body. Via an implant those signals transmit to the robot who speaks her words and thoughts.

    The play weaves in and out of Veronica’s mind and thoughts, her past and present, reality and fantasy, technology and humanity in very theatrical ways.

    Creating an even more mysterious melange of tech and fantasy, the most frightening line to me is when Veronica’s Little Prince answers Veronica’s question about who told her to come by saying:

    You see, they have programmed me to pop up whenever I hear certain words.

    That may delight AI enthusiasts and those who keep suggesting we’re living in some sort of simulation, but given the rush to push us all deeper into a world run by Artificial Intelligence, it more than tweaks a nerve for those, like me, who may see benefits to AI in some forms, but think the pitfalls are more dangerous.

    Given the sound and visual representations that give the script its many layers it was quite a challenge to present in a staged reading format without the benefit of theatre technology. But we managed to pull it off, letting the words weave their magic.

    My thanks and kudos to the cast for doing such great work and especially to young Olive Popio who played our Little Prince.

    (Photo by Scott Dray for The International Voices Project)

    You can also find more of my writings on a variety of topics on Medium at this link, including in the publications Ellemeno and Rome. I can also be found on social media under my name as above.

    #ai #Culture #InternationalVoicesProject #review #reviews #TheLIttlePrince #Theatre #Writing

  2. 🎈High Notes!

    Yesterday I sang my last Der kleine Prinz, Pierangelo Valtinoni‘s children‘s opera «Il piccolo principe» in German. A kind soul took this short clip of me as La Vanitosa/The Vain Lady/Die Eitle!

    #opera #operaSinger #Darmstadt #Valtinoni #ChildrensOpera #Kinderoper #music #video #singing #soprano #IlPiccoloprincipe #LePetitPrince #TheLittlePrince

  3. Just finishing my traditional post-opera #scotch after seeing Pacific Opera Victoria's #TheLittlePrince. The music is charming, and the production had many delightful touches, notably an oddly endearing airplane crash and some gleefully evil baobab trees. Kudos to an impeccable orchestra and amazing children's choir!
    #Opera #PacificOperaVictoria #YYJArts

  4. What also draws me to #ThomasPiketty is how, whether he is aware of it or not, he echoes what #SunRa taught, that we need an #alterdestiny with certain properties, that we need, in a #TheLittlePrince sense, GET OFF THIS PLANET, grab those geese strings and GO NOW, and especially in both deciding the REAL problem isn't tech or politic, the real core problem is #MYTHOLOGY.

    Another way to say that is in how each culture excuses their inequalities, #ThomasPaine 's thing-that-is-considered-normal.

  5. Getting into wig, make-up and first costume for our final dress rehearsal of Der kleine Prinz. We have been told the house is going to be packed, all the theater people’s kids are going to be there, and then some! Feels a bit like a premiere already!

    #opera #operaSinger, #DerKleinePrinz #IlPiccoloPrincipe #TheLittlePrince #Valtinoni #SaintExupéry #Darmstadt #Hessen

  6. DER KLEINE PRINZ
    (Il piccolo principe)

    🗓 December 1
    🕓 16:00
    📍 Staatstheater Darmstadt

    Family opera (ages 5 and up) for the holiday season by Pierangelo Valtinoni, libretto by Paolo Madron based on Le Petite Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

    Premiere of the original version in German language.

    ℹ️ staatstheater-darmstadt.de/ver

    #opera #operaSinger #Valtinoni #Darmstadt #hessen #TheLittlePrince #DerKleinePrinz #LePetitPrince #IlPiccoloPrincipe

  7. This week on Memory Muses: The Little Prince, Billie Holiday, and Twin Peaks, all in about 7 minutes.

    Memory Muses is a short weekly arts almanac supported by my Patrons ( patreon.com/wkeithtims ) who get to listen to this week's now.

    But you can listen to previous weeks for free on your favorite pod app! pod.link/1736165245

    #arts #almanac #podcast #thelittleprince #billieholiday #twinpeaks #naivete

  8. This week on Memory Muses: The Little Prince, Billie Holiday, and Twin Peaks, all in about 7 minutes.

    Memory Muses is a short weekly arts almanac supported by my Patrons ( patreon.com/wkeithtims ) who get to listen to this week's now.

    But you can listen to previous weeks for free on your favorite pod app! pod.link/1736165245

    #arts #almanac #podcast #thelittleprince #billieholiday #twinpeaks #naivete

  9. This week on Memory Muses: The Little Prince, Billie Holiday, and Twin Peaks, all in about 7 minutes.

    Memory Muses is a short weekly arts almanac supported by my Patrons ( patreon.com/wkeithtims ) who get to listen to this week's now.

    But you can listen to previous weeks for free on your favorite pod app! pod.link/1736165245

    #arts #almanac #podcast #thelittleprince #billieholiday #twinpeaks #naivete

  10. I'm looking for a picture I saw in a children's book in the early 90s. The story was about a boy who lived or stayed on a small planet and fell sick at one point. In the picture, there were plants/flowers all around the planet, a lot of yellow or green and probably a night sky.

    I have the Finnish edition of #TheLittlePrince (#LePetitPrince, #PikkuPrinssi) from 1978. Its plot is similar, as is one of the pictures (below). But none of the pictures in the book is exactly the one I remember. So where did I see that picture? In another edition of The Little Prince or in some other book?

  11. @boby_biq @mariapopova

    Here is a YouTube link to the complete audiobook (and illustrations!) of THE LITTLE PRINCE read by Kenneth #Branagh. It works here in Ireland, hope it works wherever you happen to be when you click it, and whoever you happen to be when you decide to visit or revisit this astonishing book.

    What a masterpiece for all ages.

    #TheLittlePrince #AntoinedeSaintExupery

    youtu.be/APG1upS8LDw

  12. Matinee time with the 1974 version of The Little Prince…Bob Fosse doing what he does best as The Snake.
    #TheLittlePrince #BobFosse

    youtu.be/xXonK8EBqmk