- Description
“Before there was Spalding Gray or Laurie Anderson or the 1980s, there was Robert Ashley,” says critic Josef Woodard. With a narrative that equates contemporary characters with settings and events from Spain in 1492, Ashley’s oratorio-likeImprovement layers levels of reality through the use of vocalists who alternately speak, sing, and declaim his original text.
Description
“Before there was Spalding Gray or Laurie Anderson or the 1980s, there was Robert Ashley,” says critic Josef Woodard. With a narrative that equates contemporary characters with settings and events from Spain in 1492, Ashley’s oratorio-likeImprovement layers levels of reality through the use of vocalists who alternately speak, sing, and declaim his original text.