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May.24.2013
Kafka famously wrote this Letter To His Father as a denouncement of his father's parenting abilities and an explanation of how he turned out the way he did. The letter -also famously- never reached his father because Kafka did not send it to him. He gave it - which is so typically...
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Apr.16.2013
Magazine-style cover of Polly and the Circus, Margaret Mayo, published 1908, the same year as Anne of Green Gables.
Mayo was a playwright and the Polly and the Circus play was very popular. The Nicholson women go to see it in 1912, at His Majesty's in Montreal. Flora Nicholson of Threshold...
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Apr.09.2013
If what goes around comes around, then performing an adaptation of Kafka's The Trial in a former INS building will leave the muses spinning. This small theatre occupies the space where people once swore their citizenship allegiance. It is also beneath the cells where those of questionable...
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Apr.08.2013
Humbly pitching:
AMERICAN GALAXY: Celebrating the People and the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave / Remembering the Union's Faith Foundation / A Loving Higher Purpose for the People: http://uwachuku.googlepages.com/americangalaxy + http://ugowach.tigblog.org/post/503605 + http...
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Apr.06.2013
Has a Kafka trend erupted across the theatres of the world? Are we awaiting a Second Koming? All this plus a musical adaptation currently take place, from New York to London (twice). Kafka adaptations of various sorts. Imaginative! Yes, it must be Kafka. [DE]
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Feb.19.2013
Why do the charmed play hide and seek
and flee the story in the wings,
as if disporting on the stage
could set alight the curtain fringe?
Illusion's limelight's highly prized
and channelled sentiment extolled
If structured context cramps the style,
another's script makes players...
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Feb.17.2013
Last night I was listening to The Jordan Rich Show on WBZ News Radio 1030, as I do every weekend. The show starts at midnight Friday/Saturday and again at midnight, Saturday/Sunday. The CBS Boston Affiliate Station has a long reach but it can also, of course, be heard on the internet. Always...
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Jan.25.2013
I've been told that all you ever need to know about being human can be found in Hamlet. It might be. It might not. Still, Shaksbeard (as he once spelled himself) knew much about humans if less about plot. PBS, which is letting out all the high-toned stops to enmesh us in Downton Abbey, now seeks...
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Dec.21.2012
There are many training grounds for actors, but the Piven Theatre Workshop, founded by Joyce and Byrne Piven in the early seventies, and headquartered in Evanston, Illinois, is unique. Using adaptations of theatre games, improvisational techniques, and story theatre pioneered and developed by Viola...
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Dec.04.2012
Photo: The Tree of Life movie poster, from it's Wikipedia site. (See this film. Roger Ebert, in this year's Sight & Sound poll, said it's one of the ten best ever made, world-wide.)
I must be a movie lover (technically called a cinephile) because:
1. I sit...
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