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p jhfffilbjjne jhugspay september 11 y v lj st the tribune arfs entertainment uncritical mass revel in taking poetry to the wild side kate gilderdale correspondent charlene jones and linda stitt are giving poetry a good name even professed phobics of the pairs cho sen literary form will find themselves capti vated by the heady mixture of wit pathos satire and sheer exuberance which character izes each performance perhaps the most compelling thing about uncritical mass which is how they bill themselves is the bril liant way in which they get inside your head and read back stuff you didnt know was there but recognize instantly when you hear it in fact its not until youve been sitting spellbound for several minutes that you real ize the reading has begun having estab lished an immediate rapport with the audi ence the duo eloquently tackles such topics as love lust loss sexual politics and lifes absurdities in a seamless twoway perfor mance whose only flaw is that it ends too soon jones and stitt are well known on torontos literary scene having appeared at such venues as the idler and the free times cafe and will be performing at the whitchurch- stouffville library on wed oct 1 at 7 pm while most of their readings are done in tandem they are joined on occasion by cecilie kwiatt who brought linda stitt them together in 1990 but who now lives in calgary i had been reading up until then on my own said stitt a veteran actor with a deli- ciously- wicked sense of humour cecilie took me out to the cafe may in toronto because there was going to be a poetry night while the event failed to mate rialize we stayed there and read to each other stitt and jones returned the following week and stitt got up on stage and read then it was my turn to read and i was so scared i was shaking recalled jones who had done little performance work until then i said to linda i cant get up and do this unless you get up here with me and she said if im going to hold your hand im going to read again so we held hands and read poems together that impromptu performance was greeted with enormous enthusiasm by the audience and a unique partnership was born both women select the poems they will perform on the spur of the moment based on their reading of a particular crowd and they somehow manage to do it as a team bounc ing ideas off each other as they go we love that energy and a bunch of peo ple paying attention to us observed jones with a grin it aint the money its the high the banter which links the poems is an art form in itself all the more remarkable for being completely unrehearsed while the poems continue to resonate in your mind long after you wend your reluctant way home with pieces which run the gamut from raunchy to hauntingly sad uncritical mass takes you on an unforgettable emotional journey bring kleenex to wipe away the mingled tears of laughter and sadness from your eyes and take heed of the advice of allan briesmaster writing about the duo in scenes magazine when it 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