Tusitala - Teach! Teach! Teach (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
'nobody did come, because nobody does' Some of the bleakest lines ever written. Jude distraught at the wayside and Hardy intervenes just to say this. Little wonder it appealed to Beckett. Quiet repetition of despair. On attends toujours as Duras similarly knew. Just watched Dr Who and his isolation and uniqueness heightened by his looming awareness of his impending extinction. Water itself pursuing...
Film Experience Blog (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Today's Cinematic Birthdays 11/13 1312 Edward III (of Windsor), not the gay one who gets more cinematic treatment (including Derek Jarman's fascinating take ), but his son. This is the one Shakespeare wrote a play about and the one who Mel Gibson implied to be the bastard son of Braveheart William Wallace, thereby giving the finger to history unless Wallace's sperm could survive years past his death....
Reflections on Faith and Culture (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
On this Veterans Day I remember my father, who died when I was months old (and before he had seen his newborn son) in the Battle of the Bulge in January of 1945. He and all those who went to Europe to preserve civilization had no utopian illusions about an eventual paradise on earth, but they had very clear ideas about the difference between civilization and barbarism. In his honor, I offer the following...
One Perfect Bite (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
I need a secretary! I almost missed the deadline for the October Recipes to Rival Challenge . Fortunately, Sara, who selected this months recipe and blogs at imafoodblog , had selected a Thomas Keller recipe for French Onion Soup that, while time consuming, used readily available ingredients, that made participation possible despite a late start. Our standard for French Onion Soup was set 50 years...
stuartshepherd human name male (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Kaaterskill Falls is a two-drop waterfall located near in the eastern Catskill Mountains of New York, on the north side of Kaaterskill Clove, between the hamlets of Haines Falls and Palenville in Greene County's Town of Hunter. The dual cascades total 260 feet (79 m) in height, making it one of the higher waterfalls in New York, and one of the Eastern United States' taller waterfalls. The falls are...
Londonist (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
If we told you we'd been to see a tragedy which opened with a ghost, where the lead wavered over revenge, and a play-within-a-play revealed the murderers, you'll probably buzz in with, "Err, was it Hamlet?" In fact, Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy was written before Shakespeare's greatest play [*insert your own arguments here], but actually had a huge influence on the Bard and his dithering...
Spectator - The Magazine (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
Has it really come to this? I read in Variety, the film industry journal, that ‘Mark Thomas of Elsinore Films is producing a 3-D musical Hamlet targeting the Harry Potter and High School Musical market’. I am not concerned for Hamlet, which has been kneaded into so many preposterous shapes and survived. What horrifies me is the prospect of seeing the film in 3-D. Variety helpfully explains:...
That's me on the Left! (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
The Metropolitan Opera’s Peabody and Emmy Award-winning series The Met: Live in HD continues for its fourth season, featuring nine live transmissions. All performances begin at 1 pm ET. Don’t miss the chance to experience the Met live at your local movie theater! Tomorrow the season starts off with Tosca . Other operas in the series include: • Verdi’s Aida (Oct. 24 and Nov. 11)...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
"Neither a borrower nor a lender be." -- William Shakespeare, "Hamlet" Why won't we listen to what used to be called sage advice before the Internet made too many of us think we are reinventing the world and nothing we think or try has been thought or tried before? The Obama administration is rumored to be seriously considering a second stimulus measure to "improve" the...
Providence Journal (Free subscription) | 29/09/2009
By Thomas J. Morgan On the local front: A year ago today: A crane operating at the new middle school construction site off Hamlet Avenue in Woonsocket topples and damages the steel structure of one of the buildings. No one was injured when the crane's boom fell on part of the building's structure, bending several steel beams. Wes Cotter, communications director for Gilbane Inc., construction manager...
Michael Gray's arts blog (Free subscription) | 25/09/2009
THE MAN WHO WAS HAMLET George Dillon at the Cramphorn 24.09.09 Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, favourite of the Virgin Queen, resident of Hedingham castle. And author of the plays and poems usually attributed to Shakespeare. Or so many of his fans, following the eminent John Thomas Looney, would have us believe. In this fascinating one man show, George Dillon has de Vere come back from the dead...
The Guardian - The blog Theatre (Free subscription) | 22/09/2009
From Aristophanes onwards, playwrights have pictured the stage as violent, redemptive or shallow – but which of them is right? One doesn't like to quibble with Shakespeare, but I'm not certain all the world's a stage. (Or maybe I merely lack the poetic soul to perceive a visit to the supermarket or the Department of Motor Vehicles as properly dramatic.) And yet, this autumn, New York theatre...
Pixels, Paint, Powerups, and 1-Ups (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
Life Meter Comics, the anthology of video-game inspired comics returns, bigger and better than ever! Life Meter 3 will be the first FULL-COLOR volume, featuring both blast processing and Mode-7! Sporting a dynamic cover by Ben Hatke (Flight, Zita the Space Girl), this print collection will be 120-pages and include original stories by Neil Babra (Flight, Hamlet), Jacob Chabot (Mighty Skullboy Army),...
The Guardian - The blog Theatre (Free subscription) | 08/09/2009
Incomplete work that invites the audience to respond to their own relationship with a place is authentically site-specific Chloe Veltman recently suggested that a show couldn't be considered site-specific unless it was created in response to a specific place. So, staging Beckett's Happy Days on a beach, Hamlet in Elsinore or Blasted in a hotel in Leeds should not be considered site-specific as they...
View From The Porch (Free subscription) | 06/09/2009
A favorite pastime in America is to mock the thoroughly corrupt political institutions of megalopolii like Chicago or the District of Columbia. While entertaining, this sometimes makes it possible to forget that, when one strays too far from the turnpike, one can witness similar scenes in played out in miniature in such scenic locales as Possum Hollow, Pennsylvania or Jericho, Arkansas. According to...
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