Posts tagged Dante
Inspired By Dante, Tammy Nguyen’s ‘A Comedy For Mortals’ embraces confusion

Dante has inspired countless artists through the centuries. Such has been the influence of Dante’s poem on Vietnamese American artist Tammy Nguyen, that she has devised an ambitious three-part exhibition, “A Comedy for Mortals,” inventively interpreting the text through the lens of Cold War-era geopolitics in Southeast Asia.

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Humanity In Life And Death: How One Play Intertwines Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy’

(REVIEW) At the beginning of Dante’s “Divine Comedy,” he describes himself as being in a dark place spiritually. Virgil, the protagonist of the one woman show “Spiritus/Virgil’s Dance,” finds herself in a similar position in the middle of her life: A job she hates, devoid of passion and breaking promises she’d made to herself in youth. 

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