Theater
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Shakespearing #43: Lisa Wolpe’s Gender-Bent Macbeth3
Shakespearing by Chuck Cannini Lisa Wolpe’s Gender-Bent Macbeth3 On center stage, he slumped over a tire. Strands of short blond hair dangled into the tire’s hole. The back of his burly leather armor faced the audience. Faceless. Beyond him, a figure obscured by a tattered hood and cloak skulked in the shadows. The way the Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #33: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2014)
33. Dominic Dromgoole and Robin Lough’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2014) Plenty of film adaptations of Shakespeare actually happen to be adaptations of stage versions of Shakespeare’s plays, since the vision of theatrical directors and the experience of the actors can make an expedient transition to a two dimensional plane. Of course, the temptation and Continue reading
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Episode 215: Lisa Wolpe!
Episode 215 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. In this week’s episode, I interview the actor and writer Lisa Wolpe, plus Mistie Watkins reads her essay, “Why I Write.” NOTES Get tickets for Lisa Wolpe’s current run of shows here. Learn more Continue reading
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Shakespearing #42: New York Classical Theatre’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Shakespearing #42 by Chuck Cannini New York Classical Theatre’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Central Park) Central Park West’s entrance at 103rd Street welcomed all beneath the gentle glimmer of lampposts as green as the surrounding undergrowth, tree leaves, and shrubs. Manhattan’s brick-walled apartments and rumbling cars ceased to exist. This transition from a city to Continue reading
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Episode 196: Joe Vincent!
Episode 196 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. In this week’s episode, I interview the actor Joe Vincent, Plus John McMahon writes about how Moby Dick changed his life. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Check out Orlando Shakespeare Theater’s current offerings, and use the discount code mentioned at the Continue reading
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Shakespearing #41: OST’s Modern Verse Translation of Pericles
Shakespearing #41 by John King Orlando Shakespeare Theater’s Modern Verse Translation of Pericles Orlando Shakespeare Theater’s second Shakespeare offering of the 2015-2016 season is Pericles, rendered into a modern verse translation by Ellen McLaughlin. This translation is part of a larger project called Play on! that will offer modern translations of all of Shakespeare’s plays. Continue reading
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Episode 148: Jennifer Hoppe-House!
Episode 148 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. In this week’s episode, I talk to the playwright Jennifer Hoppe-House, whose debut play is experiencing its world premiere at Orlando Shakespeare Theater, plus Lori D’Angelo writes about discovering The Scarlet Letter as a teenager, Continue reading
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Shakespearing #30: Macbeth
Shakespearing #30 by David Foley Macbeth “The earth hath bubbles, as the water has,” says Banquo of the weird sisters, and this disconcerting geologic claim captures the nightmare quality of Macbeth. Like a nightmare, the play inverts the relationship between the solid and the insubstantial: the world we think we know becomes shot through with Continue reading
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Shakespearing #20.1: Another Interlude, This Time Out of Sequence
Shakespearing #20.1 by John King Another Interlude, This Time Out of Sequence A Review of Orlando Shakespeare Theater’s 2015 production of Henry V One of the ironies of the current season of offerings at Orlando Shakespeare Theater is that in the spacious Margeson Theater, Merry Wives features the hijinks of Falstaff in a 1950s domestic Continue reading
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Shakespearing #29: King Lear
Shakespearing #29 by David Foley King Lear I’ve had a mental block about my Lear posting. I finished reading the play a few weeks ago, wrote two paragraphs, and stalled. It may be because I’ve already written about Lear in this series, or it may be because I began with the claim, “King Lear is Continue reading
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