The Queen
I have named you queen.
There are taller than you, taller.
There are purer than you, purer.
There are lovelier than you, lovelier.
But you are the queen.

When you go through the streets
No one recognizes you.
No one sees your crystal crown, no one looks
At the carpet of red gold
That you tread as you pass,
The nonexistent carpet.

And when you appear
All the rivers sound
In my body, bells
Shake the sky,
And a hymn fills the world.

Only you and I,
Only you and I, my love,
Listen to me.

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LA REINA
Yo te he nombrado reina.
Hay más altas que tú, más altas.
Hay más puras que tú, más puras.
Hay más bellas que tú, hay más bellas.
Pero tú eres la reina.

Cuando vas por las calles
nadie te reconoce.
Nadie ve tu corona de cristal, nadie mira
la alfombra de oro rojo
que pisas donde pasas,
la alfombra que no existe.

Y cuando asomas
suenan todos los ríos
en mi cuerpo, sacuden
el cielo las campanas,
y un himno llena el mundo.

Sólo tú y yo,
sólo tú y yo, amor mío,
lo escuchamos.

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Drunk as Drunk

Drunk as drunk on turpentine
From your open kisses,
Your wet body wedged
Between my wet body and the strake
Of our boat that is made out of flowers,
Feasted, we guide it – our fingers
Like tallows adorned with yellow metal -
Over the sky’s hot rim,
The day’s last breath in our sails.

Pinned by the sun between solstice
And equinox, drowsy and tangled together
We drifted for months and woke
With the bitter taste of land on our lips,
Eyelids all sticky, and we longed for lime
And the sound of a rope
Lowering a bucket down its well. Then,
We came by night to the Fortunate Isles, And lay like fish
Under the net of our kisses.

Ebrio de Trementina

Ebrio de trementina y largos besos,
estival, el velero de las rosas dirijo,
torcido hacia la muerte del delgado dia,
cimentado en el s�lido frenesi marino.

Palido y amarrado a mi agua devorante
cruzo en el agrio olor del clima descubierto,
aun vestido de gris y sonidos amargos,
y una cimera triste de abandonada espuma.

Voy, duro de pasiones, montado en mi ola unica,
lunar, solar, ardiente y frio, repentino,
dormido en la garganta de las afortunadas
islas blancas y dulces como caderas frescas.

Tiembla en la noche humeda mi vestido de besos
locamente cargado de electricas gestiones,
de modo heroico dividido en suenos
y embriagadoras rosas practicandose en mi.

Aguas arriba, en medio de las olas externas,
tu paralelo cuerpo se sujeta en mis brazos
como un pez infinitamente pegado a mi alma
rapido y lento en la energia subceleste.

I saw Fete de la Nuit last week and like a song with a catchy melody, it is still playing in my head. I would have urged you to see it at the Ohio Theatre before it ends on Feb 27th much earlier but I admit still quite being able to describe what I saw. I now realize it is the very reason I enjoyed it so much.

Dense, rich, joyful, Fetes de la Nuit is a celebration of love with layers of dance, drama and music that unfold, transform and evolve like a big collage. 

Despite the fact that the play is set in a French cafe with some nudity and smoking cigarettes, the theme is universal: “A search for love, the loss of love, the how of love, the why of love, the what of love, the discovery of love, while exploring the mystery of life. It says that it is our ability to love that makes us human and in that ability lives the hope for a better future.”

Charles Mee has written many pieces on Love in recent years. He is actually quite an expert at it. But Fetes de la Nuit reveals also his immense generosity towards this capricious matter. He gives it the space and depth to show its sensual, divine and complex forms. And in response, the talented cast gives it all.

Although the mystery of love is too vast and too complex to be answered, Charles Mee has gotten as close as one can get with Fetes de la Nuit! I am not the only one to think that: the show is almost sold out….

New York Premiere
The Ohio Theatre
February 8^th Through February 27^th, 2010
Strictly Limited Engagement

All Seats only $18
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