Special Event March 2nd

SUNDAY, MARCH 2, 2:30 PM
The Aesthetic Realism Theatre Company presents
HOW SHOULD A PERSON BE SEEN?

or,

Charles Dickens'

HARD TIMES

by Eli Siegel
A dramatic enactment of Mr. Siegel’s great lecture,

with scenes from the novel; & songs—

about labor, learning, & the human heart.
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Holiday Event - December 23rd at 2:30 pm!

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 23, 2:30 PM

The Aesthetic Realism Theatre Company Presents

THE BEAUTY & URGENCY OF JUSTICE!
A Holiday Event of Music & Vivid Comment

From Handel's Messiah: “And the Glory of the Lord ” &

“Hallelujah” Choruses, & the Aria & Chorus “O Thou

That Tellest Good Tidings to Zion” (Carrie Wilson, soloist)

and

Holiday Songs Begin with the World's Opposites—
including such internationally loved songs as “The Little Drummer Boy,”
“Silent Night,” “Un Flambeau, Jeannette, Isabelle!,”

“Who Can Retell?” & others

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AESTHETIC REALISM FOUNDATION
141 Greene Street in SoHo NYC 10012

www.AestheticRealism.org 212-777-4490

ALERT: People Who Love the Theatre!

Saturday, October 20, 8 PM

The Ethics of the Great Art of Acting!
ACTING, LIFE, & THE OPPOSITES

Reenactment of an Aesthetic Realism Lesson
"Acting shows you don't have to be fettered to yourself.

You can be other people. There is no limit to how

much you can be other people!"—Eli Siegel
THERE WAS THE STAGE, 18TH CENTURY, POETRY
Actress Carol McCluer reports on a lecture in which Eli Siegel discussed

Hamlet's speech to the players and Charles Churchill's satirical poem

on actors, The Rosciad. “This class was a hopeful, inspiring education

about something explained for the first time by Aesthetic Realism:

that the art of acting is an expression of the deepest

desire of every person—to like the world.”
CLASSIC MISTAKES IN ACTING—& IN MARRIAGE
By Anne Fielding, Obie award-winning actress, with examples

from Sheridan 's School for Scandal, Wilde's An

Ideal Husband, and acting technique.
PEOPLE WERE SO IN 1908; or,

or, EUGENE WALTER'S THE EASIEST WAY

Discussing this drama about an actress & the fight between art &

comfort, Eli Siegel said: “There is not a person who hasn't

felt he was a mean varmint and at the same time taken

advantage of….This play was looked on as one of the

big things in realism in America.”
AESTHETIC REALISM FOUNDATION

141 Greene St in SoHo NYC 10012

Contri. $10

REPEAT ON OCTOBER 7TH!

The first was a smash--sold out--audience, including me, LOVED it. The big meaning of it!

WHY DO PEOPLE LOVE ROCK 'N' ROLL?

Like millions of people, I loved dancing and listening to the rock 'n' roll music I grew up with--and took that pleasure for granted. Now I've learned it has important meaning, as every art does, in a way I never would have imagined! You are REALLY going to have your socks knocked off by this special event--

SUNDAY, AUGUST 12 at 2:30 PM

The Aesthetic Realism Theatre Company presents

Rock ‘n’ Roll, The Opposites,
& Our Greatest Hopes—
A Celebration!

“Rock ‘n’ roll has the answer to people’s problem of, on the one hand, wanting to be very private and sad, and on the other, wanting to have something like sunlight and public force. Every person has to make a one of the most secret thing in him and the most public thing. Rock ‘n’ roll shows it can be done.”
-Eli Siegel, from an Aesthetic Realism lesson to a rock musician

AESTHETIC REALISM FOUNDATION
141 Greene St. in SoHo New York, NY 10012
Call for reservations now at 212.777.4490, seating is limited!
And visit www.AestheticRealism.org for more information.

Sat., JULY 21st - 8 pm at 141 GREENE, SoHo NYC

I urge you--DON'T MISS this dramatic presentation. You've never experienced anything so funny and so good for you at the same time!
Humor—Its Meaning For Our Lives!
HUMOR & STRANGENESS by Eli Siegel. In this very funny and greatly cultural talk, Eli Siegel discussed the famous “Rumpelstiltskin” story; Don Marquis' archy and mehitabel, a tale about an intellectual cockroach and his feline friend; & Milt Gross's delightful Nize Baby. Here's a quote from it: "Humor does something to reality—it's a mingling of the world gone crazy and the world gone ever so correct…. Art can be called ‘the satisfying wildness.'”
Plus:
THE MAD LOGIC OF THE MARX BROTHERS By filmmaker and animator Ken Kimmelman. "The Marx Brothers put together opposites every person wants to do a good job with: wildness and accuracy, surprise and symmetry, freedom and order, the zany and sane—all with a speed and precision which have made people around the world laugh respectfully….The way Groucho could poke fun at people in high places who were pretentious and snobbish was hilarious and useful.”
--and more!
At the Aesthetic Realism Foundation 141 Greene Street NYC 10012 212-777-4490

How Can Love & Marriage Succeed?

Saturday, June 16, 8 PM:

Celebrating the Real Meaning of Marriage!

MIND AND WIVES A groundbreaking lecture by Eli Siegel, in which he spoke about George Sand, Mary Wollstonecraft, John Milton, & more:

"A wife is a tremendous point in emotion, accompanied by a clear legal situation. In being married, women are saying they want a man to affect them. Yet in being affected, they don't want to lose themselves. So they face the aesthetic problem of how to have themselves by giving themselves to another."

AFFECTION & RESPECT, BODY & MIND, IN REMBRANDT'S THE JEWISH BRIDE by Carol Driscoll & Harvey Spears

"As the groom in this painting embraces his bride, Rembrandt shows visually that a man's desire to embrace a woman and his desire to understand her can be the same thing!"

MAXIMS ABOUT MARRIAGE—humorous, educative, & romantic—from Damned Welcome by Eli Siegel

— AND MORE!

Aesthetic Realism Foundation 141 Greene St.
SoHo NYC 10012 212.777.4490

A not-for-profit educational foundation

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