What’s your favorite month of the year? Why? One of the things I focused on when teaching postmodernism and deconstruction was looking at the negative space, at what isn’t there. This is not to be confused with liminal space, or the space in between things. A google search suggests a door may be considered aContinue reading “Deconstructing the Year”
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Cliches To Live By
What principles define how you live? Shakespeare used serious elements in his comedies to make them more realistic, and added comic elements to his tragedies to heighten (or deepen) the gravity of the action. We see a strong example of this in the Scottish play with the Porter, who plays at being Hell’s doorman; it’sContinue reading “Cliches To Live By”
Physics and Metaphysics
What are you curious about? Today’s prompt asks what I’m curious about. The articles I always click on in the news deal with the makeup of the universe. Discovery of black holes, exoplanets, other physical manifestations of the cosmos—these intrigue me. I’ve always wondered if humans have some sort of knowledge of everything that transcendsContinue reading “Physics and Metaphysics”
Your Name is Hypokrites!
What bothers you and why? “What bothers you and why?” suggests an incredibly long blog response. So many things! From that fly buzzing around me on a warm summer day (the one I mentioned to my Intro to Theatre students, that would set me off to help me understand the anger of a killer!!) toContinue reading “Your Name is Hypokrites!”
Whose Zoomin’ Who?
Tonight is our first performance of Dark Hamlet, my cutting of the well-known Shakespeare play. It has been a consistent 59 minutes in rehearsal so I’m hoping we match that live. Here’s some of our press clippings: The CityPaper The TribLive The Latrobe Bulletin
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