Anne Fielding, Aesthetic Realism Consultant

Aesthetic Realism Theatre Company backstage:
Timothy Lynch, Derek Mali, Karen Van Outryve, Carol McCluer,
Anne Fielding, Carrie Wilson, Bennett Cooperman

Here is a complete table of contents for my Website:

PHOTOS of PRESENTATIONS Poetry of Eli Siegel at Enoch Pratt Library, Baltimore

The Great Fight of Ego vs. Truth--Songs about Love, Justice, & Everybody's Feelings, 2013 performance

"Ethics Is a Force!": Songs about Labor

NJ Herald picture of "Ethics Is a Force!"Songs about Labor at the Botto House Labor Museum in Haledon, New Jersey.

Presenters of The Poetry of Eli Siegel: A Centennial Celebration at the Enoch Pratt Library, Baltimore, April 2002

From American Ethics, American Song at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation.

And more photos to come!

ARTICLES on LIFE & THE DRAMA from Aesthetic Realism seminars given by colleagues, and featured on my Blog: Drama Is Opposites

"Is Kindness Practical In a Man's Life?--and Ibsen's An Enemy of the People" by Joseph Meglino
"How Do Men Hurt Themselves--in Love, the Family, Economics" by Bruce Blaustein, with a consideration of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman.

IN THE NEWS

Ending Racism

The People of Clarendon County: A Play by Ossie Davis
Edited by Alice Bernstein

Ruby Dee, Alice Bernstein, Anne Fielding at Western Connecticut State
University's presentation of The People of Clarendon County for MLK Day 2009

Marriage

Understanding in Marriage: What Really Interferes? from There Are Wives public seminar, May 2008, includes discussion of Samuel Beckett play "Happy Days," recently revived at Brooklyn Academy of Music.

How Does a Wife Interfere with Her Own Happiness? from There Are Wives seminar, with a consideration of Joan Didion's memoir The Year of Magical Thinking, about the loss of her husband, John Gregory Dunn.

Ethics and Theatre

"Cheers for SAG-AFTRA" Back Stage"

"An Oscar for Elia Kazan?" Philadelphia Inquirer

On Bereavement

"How Should a Widow Cope with the Loss of Her Spouse?" Caribbean Life

AESTHETIC REALISM; OR, IS A PERSON AN AESTHETIC SITUATION? by Eli Siegel

HAMLET ONCE MORE, DIFFERENT
A Report by Anne Fielding

RICHARD II AND ANGER by Eli Siegel
Reports by Anne Fielding

TIMOTHY LYNCH, President of Teamsters Local 1205 and actor with the Aesthetic Realism Theatre Company, writes in the Wall Street Journal:

"As chief negotiator for a large union and as a union organizer, I've seen many horrors that go on behind closed factory doors throughout the metropolitan area, including frequent industrial "accidents" such as severed fingers and crushed bodies..."

"MY MOTHER WAS A GIRL" by Sheldon Kranz Sheldon Kranz. Photo by Lou Bernstein.

Introduction & beginning of story: "The minute he came into the house, he knew it was the wrong evening..."

Part 2. "He tried to sound matter of fact..."

Part 3. "He drove around for a while trying to enjoy the night air..."

Part 4. "No," he said. "I've never been in Cleveland...'"

Part 5, Conclusion. "Robert watched him walk away..."

"POEMS OF SHELDON KRANZ" from the book Personal & Impersonal: 6 Aesthetic Realists, with excerpt from introduction by Eli Siegel

CLASSES / SEMINARS / PRESENTATIONS

Acting / ACTING, LIFE, & THE OPPOSITES

Music / THE OPPOSITES IN MUSIC

Marriage / UNDERSTANDING MARRIAGE!

Aesthetic Realism Seminars

Information, including about registration

The Presentations Coordinating Committee at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation

ACTING

"Classic Mistakes in Acting--& in Marriage" from "Ethics and the Great Art of Acting," presented Saturday evening, Oct. 20, 2007, at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation.

"I Believe This about Acting" from the book Aesthetic Realism: We Have Been There

Part 1. Spontaneity and Plan: Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront

Part 2. Sameness and Difference: "When I played Sasha in Chekhov's Ivanov..."

Eli Siegel's lecture on Ibsen's A Doll's House:
A. Fielding & Derek Mali as Nora & Helmer

Part 3. Purpose in Art & Purpose in Life: "Actors, like other artists, are subject to the great danger of using their art to be superior to and contemptuous of the 'ordinary world'..."

Part 4. "Eli Siegel: Do you think if there is no crisis, things are boring? ... Anne Fielding: That's one reason I want to act."

Part 5. Eli Siegel's Theory of Opposites.

Biographical Information / 1969

Recording session for animated film of Martha Baird's Thomas Comma,
produced by Ken Kimmelman: A. Fielding & Timothy Lynch as Narrator & Thomas

SENIOR TALKS

Anne Fielding & Jeffrey Carduner have spoken at many senior centers, and given the talks in English & Spanish joined by Dr. Jaime Torres.

LINKS

Anne Fielding at Eli Siegel Day in Baltimore, 2002 Senior talks picture #2