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September 3, 2014 · Speculation

Rehearsing King Fool in a Graveyard

Rehearsing King Fool in a Graveyard

The cemetery was vanity transmogrified into stone. Instead of growing more sensible in death, the inhabitants of the cemetery were sillier than they had been in life. Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being Truth? About getting to the marrow of what Shakespeare actually meant? Then get your ass out of those antiseptic black box […]

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We Players King Fool Rehearsal, part two

We Players King Fool Rehearsal, part two

We Players Lear Rehearsal at Battery Wallace in the Marin Headlands Doth any here know me? This is not Lear: Doth Lear walk thus? speak thus? Where are his eyes? Either his notion weakens, his discernings Are lethargied–Ha! waking? ’tis not so. Who is it that can tell me who I am? Shakespeare, King Lear, […]

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We Players Vessels for Improvisation

We Players Vessels for Improvisation

We Players Vessels for Improvisation at Hyde Street Pier with inkBoat  and Rova Saxophone Quartet. In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed. Charles Darwin

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Rehearsing Happy Days in a Los Feliz Sweatbox: A Play Nobody Will See

I know this thing is doomed. Katie knows it too, though we don’t say it out loud during our afternoon rehearsals in that sweatbox of a studio space in Los Feliz. Β Michael doesn’t know, which is somehow worse. Or maybe he does. The heat in LA is biblical, relentless. Beckett. Happy Days. A woman buried […]

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Rehearsing Happy Days in a Los Feliz Sweatbox: A Play Nobody Will See
Harold Pinter Locked in a Room in Hell, Or: How the BBC Accidentally Made Existentialism Punch You in the Face

Harold Pinter Locked in a Room in Hell, Or: How the BBC Accidentally Made Existentialism Punch You in the Face

So there’s this thing from 1964 floating around YouTube, Philip Saville’s production of Jean Paul Sartre’s No ExitΒ  (Huis Clos) for the BBC, retitled In Camera because apparently the British needed something that sounded more like a parking violation than eternal damnation. Harold Pinter is in it. Not writing it, acting in it. Playing Garcin, […]

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August 2, 2014 · Collusion

William Shakespeare’s Sonnet #20

William Shakespeare’s Sonnet #20

Here’s a human, here’s a beach, here’s a poem about desire that refuses to behave itself. Figure it out. ο»Ώο»Ώ Maybe that’s the whole point. These words still work. They still cut. We’re still wrestling with the same beautiful mess: who we love, how we love, what we’re allowed to say about it, and whether […]

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Dread at the Waterline: Ancient Terror Meets the Bread Bowl Crowd

Dread at the Waterline: Ancient Terror Meets the Bread Bowl Crowd

You’ve got these three women, Dread, Horror, and Alarm, the Graeae, those primordial hags who share one fucking eye between them, and they’re not tucked away in some theater where the already converted file in with their tote bags and good intentions. No. They’re at Aquatic Park, which if you know anything about San Francisco, […]

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