The Work: The Tragedy of Arthur, a Novel, by Arthur Phillips
Part One: The Introductory “Novel”
4 of 5 Stars: Strongly Recommended.
“You will tell the truth. You will write a little non-fiction for once in your life, and you will learn its lessons in public, where everyone can see you and judge you… Because [...]
Read further anon →Scenes from Shakespeare’s plays will be performed on New Mexico Rail Runner Express trains every Saturday this summer. The University of New Mexico Department of Theatre Education and Outreach will perform during the afternoon and evening on northbound train No. 506 (from Albuquerque to Santa Fe) and southbound train No. 509 (from Santa Fe to Albuquerque). [...]
Read further anon →A New Zealand teacher, Suzette Martin, was dismissed from the private Westmount School in Kerikeri for using a modern version of King Lear with her Year 13 students. The New Zealand Herald reports that the Christian school’s committee found the text to be ”embarrassing, corrupting and morally defiling.”
Read the full New Zealand Herald article.
Claire [...]
Read further anon →In early March in Ashland, Oregon, a sex offender was found by police. Mark Lee McSweeney was found sleeping underneath stairs to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Elizabethan theatre. For further information on the man’s arrest, visit KMTR’s article here.
Jessica is a Senior at Waldorf College in Iowa. She is currently [...]
Read further anon →F. Murray Abraham single-handedly thwarted a thief attempting to rob the Classic Stage Company’s dressing rooms during rehearsals for Much Ado About Nothing. Martha Plimpton is also in the show. Lucky for the thief she wasn’t with Abraham at the time because that surely would have ended in an old-fashioned beat down. Seriously. Martha Plimpton is [...]
Read further anon →Alright, I admit it, I’m just not up on this whole “vook” thing. A vook? Yesterday I would have thought that was something in Star Wars.
Well, I would have been wrong. You see, when a book and a video or other multi-media item love each other very much, they combine and make a [...]
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It’s true. I love hockey. I love Shakespeare. I could attempt to wax poetic about the parallels between the two — they do share beauty, brutality, enthusiastic fans who throw things — [...]
Read further anon →While I suppose one might say that Hamlet has an undead encounter of sorts in Shakespeare’s play, Jordan Galland, writer and director of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Undead, clearly felt that a ghost was simply not undead enough – so he’s added vampires. And, just for good measure, he’s thrown in a conspiracy theory about the [...]
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