A Twenty Minute Silence Followed by Applause
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"Threading the subtle seam between what lives and what remains, A Twenty Minute Silence Followed by Applause succeeds in conjuring the poetry of Marcel Marceau's performance as both a character on stage and in history. . . . Like pulling a ghost from a dark room, this is an accomplished work of historical portraiture: precise in its objects, complex in its melancholy, and insightful in its humor." —Thalia Field
Part biographic inquiry, part lyric portraiture, radio producer Shawn Wen reanimates world-renowned mime Marcel Marceau's silent art.
The book opens in darkness, a single figure standing in the spotlight. It's Marceau in his signature hat, painted face, black clothes, and ballet slippers. Over time, the text accumulates objects: dolls, paintings, icons, wives, children, cities, and performances. By turns whimsical and melancholic, this spare volume takes shape through capsule histories, interview clips, vivid scenes, and archival research.
Shawn Wen is a writer, radio producer, and multimedia artist. Her writing has appeared in The New Inquiry, The Seneca Review, The Iowa Review, The White Review, and the anthology City by City: Dispatches from the American Metropolis (Faber and Faber, 2015). Her radio work broadcasts regularly on This American Life, Freakonomics Radio, and Marketplace. She is the recipient of numerous fellowships, including the Ford Foundation Professional Journalism Training Fellowship and the Royce Fellowship.
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Shawn Wen. (2017). A Twenty Minute Silence Followed by Applause. Sarabande Books.
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Part biographic inquiry, part lyric portraiture, radio producer Shawn Wen reanimates world-renowned mime Marcel Marceau's silent art.
The book opens in darkness, a single figure standing in the spotlight. It's Marceau in his signature hat, painted face, black clothes, and ballet slippers. Over time, the text accumulates objects: dolls, paintings, icons, wives, children, cities, and performances. By turns whimsical and melancholic, this spare volume takes shape through capsule histories, interview clips, vivid scenes, and archival research.
Shawn Wen is a writer, radio producer, and multimedia artist. Her writing has appeared in The New Inquiry, The Seneca Review, The Iowa Review, The White Review, and the anthology City by City: Dispatches from the American Metropolis (Faber and Faber, 2015). Her radio work broadcasts regularly on This American Life, Freakonomics Radio, and Marketplace. She is the recipient of numerous fellowships, including the Ford Foundation Professional Journalism Training Fellowship and the Royce Fellowship.
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A unique, poetic critical appreciation of Marcel Marceau (1923-2007).The first few pages of radio producer and artist Wen's short book look like blank verse, with succinct lines and plenty of white space. As the narrative unfolds into a meditation on the famous French mime, the poetry never leaves, even as Marceau's inner voice advises, "leave speech behind. The body has its own language: weight, resistance, hesitation, surprise." Surprises abound within these chapters, many no longer than a paragraph and few extending more than a couple of pages. The first surprise is the author's ability to convey, in carefully chosen words, the essence and significance of this wordless art, especially when the reader learns that she is a radio producer, perhaps drawn to her subject because radio is the least promising medium for mime. Then there's the American attitude toward mime in general, a disdain that makes such a fascinating book on one all the more of a wonder. "A journalist asked Marcel Marceau why most Americans hated mime," writes Wen. "Marceau responded, 'Because most mimes are lousy.' " The author meticulously details what distinguished the artist, the self-proclaimed "Picasso of mime," in a series of scenes that show the magic of his performances and in annotated catalogs of the collections of artifacts that made the environment he constructed what his daughter called a "world apart" and a "virtual museum." Wen also tiptoes into his personal life. His first wife "said he would not speak to her for days on end. She called it mental cruelty. He called it rehearsal." She also traces the arc of his decline, his old age and death, and the apostle he left behind: "They learned to reproduce his gestures faithfully. And when they succeeded in mirroring the master, they began to unravel the art." Readers will marvel not only at Marceau, but at the book itself, which displays such command of the material and such perfect pitch.COPYRIGHT(2017) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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Starred review from July 1, 2017
Wen, a radio producer for NPR's Youth Radio, seems an odd match with the man who personified an art form enveloped in visual cues and absolute silence. However, she has fashioned a selective writing style that effectively pays homage to both the history of mime and its solitary master, Marcel Marceau. Through this small, blink-and-you'll-miss-it book, Marceau's joining the Resistance in Nazi-occupied France, his loves, his hobbies, his books, and his near-fetishized collections are all presented with great economical detail and reveal volumes about the man and his life. Then there are the performances. Wen does what only few can: poetically express the artistic importance of Bip the Clown, Marceau's iconic Everyman character and inspired offspring of Chaplin's Tramp and Decroux's Pierrot Pierrot. Wen crafts diamond-cut paragraphs that place the reader in Marceau's enthralled audiences. A lustful affair turns into a long and loving partnership in three minutes of walking with intention and emotion, followed by a scene depicting David and Goliath, with Marceau as Bip playing all roles. These invaluable descriptions by a writer versed in the tradition of making the nonvisible vibrant should be read slowly and with the same seemingly effortless focus Marceau gave to his art.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2017, American Library Association.)
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Part biographic inquiry, part lyric portraiture, radio producer Shawn Wen reanimates world-renowned mime Marcel Marceau's silent art.
The book opens in darkness, a single figure standing in the spotlight. It's Marceau in his signature hat, painted face, black clothes, and ballet slippers. Over time, the text accumulates objects: dolls, paintings, icons, wives, children, cities, and performances. By turns whimsical and melancholic, this spare volume takes shape through capsule histories, interview clips, vivid scenes, and archival...
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Why this black box...
Young Marceau
Mangel
Pedagogy
Bip is born
Scene 1 Bip the soldier
Genealogy
Scene 2 Bip, great star of the traveling circus
M. on speech
M. on Marceau
The empty stage is a universe...
Bip at a society party
Collections: Work-related reading
M. on America, 1955
Scene 4 Bip plays David and Goliath
M. on the connective tissues
M. on his own
Scene 5 Bip attempts suicide
M. on boundaries and borders
Scene 6 Bip, the Bullfighter
M. on man's modern problems
M. on Chaplin
Marceau's show returns in fragments...
Scene 7 Bip as skater and spectator
M. on Chaplin II
Collections: Reading for a well-rounded education
Scene 8
Scene 9
Scene 10
Time passes...
M. interacts with fans
M. on mastering one's feelings
Collections: items from Japan
Collections: knives
Collections: miscellaneous
Collections: icons
Pierre Verry
But remember...
M. on failure
M. on technology
Bip as sleek creature of the deep
Scene 11
Collections: masks
Collections: zoomorphe
M. on video
Scene 12
Camille on M.
Collections: ancient dolls
Collections: paintings
M. versus M.
Collections: Japanese dolls
Scene 13
An interview
"Marcel Marceau has no private life...."
Scene 14
A twenty minute silence followed by applause
Other works
Clive Barnes on materialism
Scene 15
Seeing is a way...
M. writes about M.
Bip the stoic
Scene 16
Collections: clocks
You are ever the beholder...
M. on most mimes
Collections: performing dolls
Collections: sacred dolls
M. on the king of pop
"It was the winter of..."
M. on Theriensenstadt
From Marcel and Me...
Collections: the furniture
Collections: the boxes
Critics on aging
Scene 17 Bip hunting butterflies
Bip gets left behind
M. on aging
Pere Lachaise Cemetery
Collections: pleasure reading
Collections: silverware
Collections: Roman tableware from the 2nd century
After M.
M. on the truth
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