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COVER STORY
 Memory
Kurt talks with
actor, director, and playwright Simon McBurney, director and star of the
current play Mnemonic, about the intimate connections between art and
memory in theater, architecture, poetry, and music.
 Playing
Our Song
An exploration of how specific songs can trigger intense
emotional memories. Produced by Jeff Lunden.
 Go
to Neuroscientist Dr. Robert Zatorre's website
Lucille
Clifton
The poet communicates the richness
and complexity of memories, both personal and public. Produced by Michele
Siegel.
Go
to Academy of American Poets entry on Clifton
Read
Clifton's poem Jasper, Texas, 1998
Read
Clifton's poem Memory
 Design
For Memory
Architect David Hoglund talks with Studio 360's Julie
Burstein about his design for Woodside Place, a facility for Alzheimer's
patients, which offers people with severe memory loss a sense of independence,
and a sense of home. (Photo by Martha Rial, Post-Gazette.)
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to ABCNews.com article on Hoglund's Alzheimer's facility
Go
to Metropolis article on building design for mental health
Go
to Post-Gazette article on Woodside Place
 SPECIAL
GUEST
Simon McBurney
Award-winning stage and screen actor Simon McBurney
is the artistic director and co-founder of the London-based Theatre de
Complicite. Over the last several years he and members of theater company
have led workshops around the world exploring the subject of memory and
culture, a project that evolved into Mnemonic, a play running through
next week at the John Jay College Theater in New York. A national tour
of Mnemonic is planned for the fall of 2001.
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Commentary
Live Theater Lives.
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Playing
Trailer King: With the summer movie season about
to begin, the king of Hollywood voice-overs, Don LaFontaine, reveals
some of his trade secrets. Produced by Steve Nelson and Kerrie Hillman.
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