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A Quarreling Pair in NY Times
After Six Decades, a Jane Bowles Puppet Play Takes Flight
By JENNIFER DUNNING
Published: December 3, 2007
MONTCLAIR, N.J., Nov. 30 -- Bill T. Jones's new "Quarreling Pair" may surprise those familiar with his work over the last 20 years. There are no overarching social themes or emotions. The tone is relaxed and instinctual. Based on a short play by Jane Bowles, "A Quarreling Pair" does not look at our time or the cultural history that shaped it. Instead, Mr. Jones and his scenic designer, Bjorn G. Amelan, delve into the central relationship and tone of this odd little four-page puppet play and then move through it, as through a magic mirror, into a complex, dreamlike world in which their imaginations run playfully, riotously wild.
