When an Actor Calls With a Poem to Share
When an Actor Calls With a Poem to Share A Paris playhouse has developed a program of one-on-one “consultations,” delivered by its artists while the theater is closed. The singer Dimitra Kontou performing this week for an elderly patient at the Charles-Foix hospital in Ivry-sur-Seine, a suburb of Paris.Credit...Dmitry Kostyukov for The New York Times Feb. 25, 2021 PARIS — “I am calling you for a poetic consultation,” said a warm voice on the telephone. “It all starts with a very simple question: How are you?” Since March, almost 15,000 people around the world have received a ca...