Beginnings: A Speech Oratorio

Beginnings: A Speech Oratorio takes a Kostelanetz text collected before and publishes it as a small paperback book that makes performance more feasible for as many as 26 speakers who need not be professional actors, in sum realizing the work's theme of a wealth of openings of otherwise nonexistent narratives. Nonetheless, by itself the book is worth reading, thus imagining its performance.

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