My Personal Additions to the Encyclopedia Baracktannica
As the title suggests, this is completely off the topic of Shakespeare, the American Shakespeare Center, and the tour. Fortunately, I am always a nerd, and in consequence, this is quite in keeping with the ‘True Confessions of a Shakespeare Nerd‘ promised by the blog’s full title. I have been [...]
Archive for February, 2008
Don’t Hate Me Because I’m in the Florida Keys For My Job While You are Freezing
Posted in On Touring, Pictures, tagged acting, american shakespeare center, american shakespeare center on tour, entertainment, Henry V, I am cold, Newton's Unknown Laws, piercing eloquence tour, shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew, theater, theatre, touring theatre on February 20, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Alternate Title: Death and Rebirth in Islamorada
Islamorada, Florida, February 8-9:
Words cannot express how fantastic, and how surreal, it was to be in the Florida Keys.
And so this concludes this particular blog post.
Ha ha! If I fooled you, you must have never seen the average length of my posts. Perhaps you stumbled onto this blog by [...]
Shakespeare in the Sunshine State
Posted in On Touring, tagged acting, american shakespeare center, american shakespeare center on tour, entertainment, Henry V, Holy-Baby-Jesus-Wear-All-Maximum-Layers-of-Warmth wind, I am cold, Only a Life in the Theatre, piercing eloquence tour, quasi-cloisonne double-headed tiger, shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew, the drama of not doing a show, theater, theatre, touring theatre on February 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Sarasota, Florida, February 5-6:
Florida appears to me to be God’s geographical reminder that life is not fair. I had never been to Florida in the winter, and, being thus unprepared for the surprise of how warm it actually was, my first thought, as I stepped out of the van, was: “This is not FAIR.” It [...]
Twin Buffets, One and a Half Merchants, and a Treatise on Volume in Stage Acting
Posted in On Touring, tagged acting, american shakespeare center, american shakespeare center on tour, entertainment, five knuckle introduction, Merchant of Venice, piercing eloquence tour, shakespeare, the drama of not doing a show, theater, theatre, touring theatre on February 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »
New Martinsville, West Virginia, February 1-3:
Situated on the Ohio river and consequently nestled to the extreme north of West Virginia’s borders, New Martinsville lays claim to a number of titles in regards to this blog.
One of them is ‘New Martinsville: Town of the Twin Buffets,’ because the non-chain restaurants that I found were a surprisingly [...]
More Shakespeare, More West Virginia, More Nerdy Verbiage
Posted in On Touring, tagged american shakespeare center, american shakespeare center on tour, entertainment, I am from the nineteenth century, I hate cold, Merchant of Venice, piercing eloquence tour, shakespeare, theater, theatre, touring theatre on February 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Buckhannon, West Virginia, January 29:
Luckily, we had another performance of Merchant of Venice in Buckhannon. The theater was beautiful; it reminded me a little of the theater in which I did Romeo and Juliet in college, only with a larger stage, a smaller house, and more humane acoustics. So the similarities were basically age, and [...]
The Price of Fame
Posted in On Touring, Pictures, tagged american shakespeare center, american shakespeare center on tour, entertainment, piercing eloquence tour, theater, theatre, touring theatre on February 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The above poster is from our week-long engagement at Fairmont, and is my favourite version of the many posters strewn about the campus. You know you’ve hit the big time when people put frowny stickers on your forehead. It’s even better than the drawn-on moustache or glasses, which only require a pen. I got a whole sticker!
This [...]
Henry V, Parts I and II
Posted in On Touring, tagged american shakespeare center, american shakespeare center on tour, entertainment, Henry V, piercing eloquence tour, shakespeare, theater, theatre, Theatre Ninja, touring theatre on February 1, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Weyers Cave, Virginia, January 18:
Weyers Cave was one of the first places we visited on the first leg of our tour, and it was nice to return to do Henry V, having done Taming of the Shrew in the fall. It was nice to do Henry, at all, in order to satisfy our interrupted expectations two [...]
