Tag: Rodrigo Toscano

EMU student Casidhe McNulty reacts to Rodrigo Toscano’s recent BathHouse reading: The November 9th reading of Rodrigo Toscano’s Collapsible Poetics at The Dreamland Theater was made successful by the performers, which included Toscano and five guest performers. They all remained well composed for the vast majority of the performance, in spite of the standing-room-only audience,…

Student Dan Hall reacts to Rodrigo Toscano’s recent BathHouse reading: First off, the venue was terrible.  What was supposed to be an intimate setting at the Dreamland Theater was, in reality, about a hundred people (who really didn’t want to be there) crammed into a space the size of my living room.  Now I suppose…

Kelly McKinne gives her reaction to the recent Rodrigo Toscano BathHouse reading: I read a few of the performances from Rodrigo Toscano’s book Collapsible Peotics Theatre before I attended the show Monday night in Ypsilanti. Although I already had a preconceived image of how the acts would be performed, my earlier reading was not nearly…

Another reaction from Dustin Wingett, this time in response to Rodrigo Toscano’s BathHouse reading at the Dreamland Theater: After reading through Collapsible Poetics Theater, I knew I was in for something…different when I went to see Rodrigo Toscano perform/speak at the Dreamland Theater.  I also knew beforehand that he had picked a few EMU students…

Student Noelle Havens offers a brief reaction to Rodrigo Toscano’s recent BathHouse reading: Experiencing Rodrigo Toscano’s performances created a new sense of poetics, drawing out multi-vocal sounds within the arena of interaction. It was nice to feel a writer’s work and to respond to it in a cognitive way, making me grapple with my own…