Rejected Title: Who is Ellen Playing, Anyway?
Reason for Rejection of Rejected Title: Now that we are working on Shakespearean text for nine hours a day, we have honed our abilities to find dirty double meanings in everything.
For those of you who don’t know, or have forgotten, the parts I’m granted in each of our plays, [...]
Archive for July, 2007
Who are Ellen’s Characters, Anyway?
Posted in My Characters, tagged acting, american shakespeare center, american shakespeare center on tour, Henry V, Merchant of Venice, piercing eloquence tour, shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew, theater, theatre, touring theatre on July 22, 2007 | 2 Comments »
O For a Muse (in Fire)
Posted in Pictures, Uncategorized on July 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Displaying my usual level of celebration of our independence from England, I wrote the following with my Fourth of July sparkler:
If you cannot quite read it, it’s a piece of the famous first line of Henry V: “O, for a muse of fire, that would ascend / The brightest of invention.” As we are all responsible for knowing [...]
Staunton, VA and the American Shakespeare Center
Posted in The Way of the American Shakespeare Center, tagged acting, american shakespeare center, american shakespeare center on tour, shakespeare, theater, theatre on July 1, 2007 | 6 Comments »
I arrived in Staunton, Virginia, on Sunday the 17th. I immediately placed myself in the debt of Jay McClure, the wonderful Associate Artistic Director, who picked me up at the train station.
Facts about Staunton:
It has about 25,000 people;
It is impossible to really get around without a car;
There are a lot of trees, grass and pollen.
Facts about [...]
