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Michael Mack's disarming one-man play about his
mother's mental illness
A lyric portrait of his mother's life with schizophrenia
– and her recovery – Mack's solo show Hearing
Voices (Speaking in Tongues) shares an intimate look
at madness, love, and redemption. Boston
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featured poems
Becoming
Annie. "Becoming Annie, who wakes in a wrinkled cotton
nightie, watches a luminous hand touch her ticking wrist....
More poems below....
Spartacus
Speaks. "I see much from this height. Grape leaves
wave like nailed palms, and my toes are sprouting flies...."
Confession.
"I loved the suspense – Saturdays, waiting on pews with
ancient hunch-backed women whispering into their fists...."
Our
Lady of Sorrows. "Why my mother chopped off her
hair, why she followed me to the school bus stop that morning in
second grade...."
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past highlights
Nov '09 – Michael Mack performs selections
from Hearing Voices for staff
and patients at Hoboken University Medical Center, Hoboken, NJ
Oct '09 – Mack presents new and selected works
in the Laureate Series at Boston City Hall, Boston, MA
May '09 – Joining art and spirituality, Mack
presents selections from Hearing Voices
for a Sunday morning Unitarian
Universalist worship service, Middleboro, MA
May '09 – Mack performs Hearing
Voices (Speaking in Tongues) at the Community
College of Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD
Apr '09 – Chosen by New Hampshire Poet Laureate
Patricia
Fargnoli, Mack wins the Writers Circle National Poetry Prize
for "Becoming
Annie" read at the Public Library, Providence, RI
Mar '09 – Mack joins musicians in an evening
of performances for residents of Boston
Rescue Mission, Boston, MA
Oct '08 – Hearing
Voices is keynote performance for the Psi
Beta National Honor Society in Psychology Synergy Conference,
Westminster, MD
Oct '08 – Miami
University hosts Hearing Voices
(Speaking in Tongues) for the Psychology Department's Colloquium
Series, Oxford, OH
May '08 – Hearing
Voices headlines at historic Mechanics
Hall in Worcester MA. More in media
feature.
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"Exquisite"
National Public
Radio
"Breathtaking"
Minneapolis Star
Tribune
"Transcendent"
Boston Sunday Globe
"Healing"
Washington Post
"The poem is the point at which our strength
gives out."
Richard Rosen
"The universe is made of stories, not atoms."
Muriel Rukeyser
"The past isn't dead.
It isn't even past."
William Faulkner
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Full list of Michael Mack's performances.
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⇓ recent
news ⇓
mr. mack goes to washington
helps push for better mental health care
Performing in DC at the national headquarters for
the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
and at the national conference of the National Alliance on Mental
Illness (NAMI),
Mack joins other NAMI members to visit the offices of Senator
John Kerry and Senator
Scott Brown to press for better mental health care legislation.
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"hearing voices"
resounds in boston
performance series raises mental health
awareness
Mack partners with the National Alliance on Mental
Illness, NAMI,
of Cambridge/Middlesex, Saint
Paul Catholic Church, the Grolier
Poetry Bookshop, and many other organizations to raise
awareness about mental illness – especially as mental health
programs face legislative budget cuts.
See press
release and feature in Somerville
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"hearing voices" at yale
university
In partnership with Fellowship
Place of New Haven, Michael Mack brings his acclaimed one-man
show Hearing Voices (Speaking in
Tongues) to the Yale University Whitney Auditorium, New Haven,
CT.
Post-play Q&A features faculty from the Yale
School of Medicine and School of Drama joining Mack for an audience
discussion about mental illness, mental health and the arts.
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