Kit Smyth Basquin

Manhattan

November 1, 2020

by Kit Smyth Basquin

Time is changing. November 1, 2020. Clocks back one hour. New season. Move on. The Metropolitan Museum of Art features a fashion exhibition about time. Black outfits through time, positioned around a swinging pendulum, like a clock. I bought the T-shirt. I will show it off with my black jeans when the weather warms up.

Sequestered at home on the Upper East Side of New York during this pandemic, I watch too many lectures, concerts, classes, and theatrical performances via Zoom. One day I saw seven! The Irish Rep adapted Eugene O’Neill’s A Touch of the Poet to Zoom, with each actor performing from home but seemingly acting on a common stage. The director had his job cut out for him coordinating the moves.

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