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What May Have Been is a novel in letters exchanged between the artist Jackson Pollock and his fictional lover, an alluring young woman called Dori G. Susan Tepper and Gary Percesepe have created a sexy and luminous love story that takes place sometime during the late 1940’s, in that sandy wonderland at the eastern tip of Long Island known far and wide as The Hamptons. Ivy Theatre Company presents 24 HOURS OF WOMEN!
Actors: Austin Mitchell and Audrey Alford. Playwright Susan Tepper with Austin Mitchell Advance Praise for What May Have Been “In this extraordinary novel, Pollock tells his lover that things like paint and wives are very small in the scheme of things. Susan Tepper and Gary Percesepe show how the great scheme of things is, in fact, in literary art, captured in paint and wives and a Montauk surf and a silky scarf and narrow hips and a cold water flat and a used Ford. Brilliantly conceived, brilliantly executed, this is a stunning book about art and about life.” “The fictional letters between Pollock and an imaginary Dori G. come out in a hailstorm of paint flecks, lockets, long looks, kisses, blowing sand. Dori sees Jackson in his distance and his nearing, and his return to her like the visit of one of the Greek gods to his mortal lover, as piercing and as fatal.” “How to convey the irresistible pleasures of this novel in letters? The language mimics the slashing, dramatic immediate heroic gestures of abstract expressionism, is an extraordinary act of poetic invention,
and tells a sexy and doomed love story.” “These two fervent voices exude the splendor and gloom of adulterous love.” Reviews Connotation Press Interview January 15, 2011: What May Have Been: |
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