This Verse Business, A Play by A.M. Dolan, Part of UConn Environmental Series

Robert Frost returns to the stage in A.M.
Dolan’s This Verse Business. Played
by Emmy winning actor Gordon Clapp (NYPD
Blue’s Detective Greg Medavoy), Frost’s poetry is heard afresh and his
great wit witnessed once more in Clapp’s critically acclaimed performance. The
performance will take place on Thursday, October 3, 4 pm at the Konover
Auditorium, Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, UConn. This event is free and open
to the public.



For nearly fifty years, Robert Frost served as bard throughout the
country. He performed from memory his justly-famous poetry and shared
his “wild surmises” on religion, science, popular culture, rhyme,
free-verse—whatever was on his mind. Although he traveled far and wide, his
poetry and wit were firmly grounded in New England—in the
natural world and the way people live in nature. Partly based on these
public appearances, This Verse
Business not only gives us Robert Frost, the public wit, but also
Frost at his cabin, alluding to his family, and to his
relationship with art and nature.



The Edwin Way Teale Lecture Series brings
leading scholars and scientists to the University of Connecticut to present
public lectures on nature and the environment. This event is
also co-sponsored by the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute. The lectures are open to the public and do not require registration. For
additional information please call 860.486.4460 or visit http://doddcenter.uconn.edu/asc/events/teale/teale.htm