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\"\"LEXINGTON, Ky.\u2014The world premiere stage production of Maurice Manning\u2019s award-winning book of poetry \u201cLawrence Booth\u2019s Book of Visions\u201d debuts March 27 at 7:30 p.m. in Transylvania University\u2019s Lucille Caudill Little Theater. This ensemble performance portrays friendships and fantasies from the colorful life of young Lawrence \u201cLaw\u201d Booth who imagines incredible things to escape his troubles. Set in Appalachia in the 1970s and 80s, the coming-of-age poetic saga focuses on the adventures of the rebellious Booth, his scurrilous Mad Daddy, his best friend Black Damon, the perhaps imaginary Missionary Woman and Red Dog, his beloved canine pal.\n<\/p>\n

\nDrawn directly from Manning\u2019s poems, this theatrical adaptation features vivid monologues, startling revelations, choral storytelling, Appalachian music and many weird and wondrous visions all brought to vigorous life by Transylvania student actors and a professional production team.\n<\/p>\n

\n\u201cLawrence Booth\u2019s Book of Visions\u201d took Manning, an English professor and writer-in-residence at Transylvania, more than 10 years to write. It was a project he began right out of college, and although he felt unsure of what he was doing, he was certain he wanted to be a writer.\n<\/p>\n

\n\u201cI didn\u2019t really know what that meant or how to go about it,\u201d Manning said. \u201cI just wanted to be a person who read books and carried around a pen and scraps of paper, someone who studies the world for its meaning.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\nManning must have figured it out. \u201cLawrence Booth\u2019s Book of Visions\u201d won the 2001 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition. \u201cManning\u2019s unfaltering audacity is equaled by its artistic control, and the result is an astonishing collection, still more astonishing as a first book,\u201d wrote Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and contest judge W. S. Merwin in his foreword. \u201cThe individual poems\u2026bring on a cast of characters who recur in a spectrum of forms and phantoms, luminous shapes altering the same kaleidoscope.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\nIt was this cast of characters that Transylvania theater professor Michael Bigelow Dixon found compelling when reading the work of his fellow faculty member. Dixon says, \u201cI read \u2018Lawrence Booth’s Book of Visions\u2019 and recognized how theatrical it was: There are continuing characters, a journey filled with dramatic events and a unique poetic voice. Then I attended Maurice Manning’s readings and realized how vibrant and engaging his work is when read aloud.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\nIt took theater faculty and students four months of meetings, comparisons of experimental drafts and conversations exploring the thematic and theatrical intent of the piece. Different versions of the script were read aloud multiple times by the adaptors and members of the creative team\u2014designers, stage manager and producer. The theatrical adaptation was a team effort consisting of Dixon; Lexington-based Project SEE Theatre professionals Evan Bergman, Ellie Clark and Sullivan White; and first-year Transylvania student Theodora Z. Salazar.\n<\/p>\n

\nDixon describes the final product as a \u201cbildungsroman,\u201d or coming-of-age story, divided into three parts that align with Booth’s childhood, adolescence and young adulthood. \u201cIt\u2019s a portrait of the artist as a young man in Appalachia,\u201d explains Dixon, and each section includes six to nine poems that offer insight into the development of his character through conflict, friendship and fantasy.\u00a0 \u00a0\n<\/p>\n

\nThe production includes a prologue and epilogue, reflecting Maurice Manning’s own introduction and conclusion to his collection of poems. Manning, Dixon and Ellie Clark recently talked with author Silas House about \u201cBook of Visions\u201d on the radio program \u201cHillbilly Solid.\u201d The interview starts at 39:41 and may be heard here<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

\nIn addition to enjoying the play, guests can see a faculty\/student photography exhibition curated to reflect the themes of the production and Transylvania\u2019s many connections with Appalachian culture. The works will be on display near the theater entrance. And the Transylvania University a cappella group, TBA, has composed and will sing the poem, \u201cA Prayer Against Forgetting Boys,\u201d at a limited number of performances.\n<\/p>\n

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\nPerformances of \u201cLawrence Booth\u2019s Book of Visions\u201d will be March 27\u201329, 7:30 p.m.; March 30, 2 p.m.; April 3, 5, 7:30 p.m.; and April 6, 2 p.m.\n<\/p>\n

\nAll performances are staged in the Lucille Caudill Little Theater<\/a>, on Transylvania\u2019s historic campus, located off Fourth Street between North Broadway and Upper Streets. There is ample parking<\/a> in the adjacent Mitchell Fine Arts Center parking lot and handicap\/disability parking and seating are available for all the productions.\n<\/p>\n

\nTickets are $10 each for general admission and $5 each for the Transylvania community. Tickets may be reserved by calling the box office at 859-281-3621 weekdays March 24-28 and March 31-April 4 between 1\u20134 p.m. The Little Theater box office is also open one hour prior to performances. For more information, contact Transylvania\u2019s fine arts office at 859-233-8141.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LEXINGTON, Ky.\u2014The world premiere stage production of Maurice Manning\u2019s award-winning book of poetry \u201cLawrence Booth\u2019s Book of Visions\u201d debuts March 27 at 7:30 p.m. in Transylvania University\u2019s Lucille Caudill Little Theater. This ensemble performance portrays friendships and fantasies from the colorful life of young Lawrence \u201cLaw\u201d Booth who imagines incredible things to escape his troubles. Set in Appalachia in the 1970s and 80s, the coming-of-age poetic saga focuses on the adventures of the rebellious Booth, his scurrilous Mad Daddy, his best friend Black Damon, the perhaps imaginary Missionary Woman and Red Dog, his beloved canine pal. Drawn directly from Manning\u2019s poems, this theatrical adaptation features vivid monologues, startling revelations, choral storytelling, Appalachian music and many weird and wondrous visions all brought to vigorous life by Transylvania student actors and a professional production team. \u201cLawrence Booth\u2019s Book of Visions\u201d took Manning, an English professor and writer-in-residence at Transylvania, more than 10 years to write. It was a project he began right out of college, and although he felt unsure of what he was doing, he was certain he wanted to be a writer. \u201cI didn\u2019t really know what that meant or how to go about it,\u201d Manning said. \u201cI just wanted to be a person who read books and carried around a pen and scraps of paper, someone who studies the world for its meaning.\u201d Manning must have figured it out. \u201cLawrence Booth\u2019s Book of Visions\u201d won the 2001 Yale Series<\/p>\n

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