Loving Repeating

A Musical Adapted from the Writings of Gertrude Stein

By: Gertrude Stein, Frank Galati (Adapted By)

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Paperback | 6 August 2009

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Frank Galati's dramatic adaptation of Gertrude Stein's texts begins with Stein at age 60 as she is lecturing at the University of Chicago in 1934. She starts to speak about her writing, specifically her use of repetition, and to connect this idea with her own life experiences. A young Gertrude then appears to guide the audience through her memories of her life as a student, falling in love with Alice B. Toklas, their time together in France and Alice's account of Stein's final day. These vignettes, each culminating in a song (music by Stephen Flaherty), adeptly encapsulate the joy and passion of Stein's life and work, and the depth and complexity of a lesbian romance. Galati sheds new light on Stein's views on language, communication, and ideas by emphasizing how her art evolved from her fascination with the repetition of human behavior-as Stein sings to the audience "Loving repeating is one way of being."

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Galati's adaptation of various Stein texts, along with a moving account of Stein's last days written by Toklas, deals with Stein as writer, thinker, and lover in gently impressionistic fashion. The results are user-friendly in the extreme and quite charming. -Chicago Tribune

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