Prototype Festival: What To Wear. Richard Foreman's opera on beauty and ducks.
Why do the four opera singers repeat "This is Mad'line X" forty-one times? What's with the big ducks and why are they playing golf? Is the ensemble a group of courtiers or a deck of cards? Why are these bedazzling and bewildering sixty minutes entitled "What To Wear"? For answers, I turned to Richard Foreman,...