Ellen’s News in Brief
This is a historical sub-title, it being the first time the words ‘Ellen’ and ‘brief’ appear in the same sentence without a negative between them.
This fall, I was in a production of Henry IV, Part One at the Folger Theatre in Washington, DC. It was an absolute delight, from start to finish, and [...]
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What Makes Actors Happy and What Makes Actors Sad
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged acting, actors reinvent the airplane, american shakespeare center, american shakespeare center on tour, bizarre architectural facade of Bob Evans, entertainment, Fancy Bred, long tears, piercing eloquence tour, quasi-cloisonne double-headed tiger, shakespeare, theater, theatre, tuneful shoulderbag on October 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
BONUS ACTIVITY: In honour of the final, belated, and final belated post about my tour, make a list of the things that are mentioned that make actors happy and the things that make actors sad. Feel free to illustrate your favourites. Or do an interpretive dance.
Rockville, Maryland, March 24-26:
The Piercing Eloquence troupe wrapped up its [...]
The Penultimate Variation on the Drama of Not Doing a Show
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged acting, american shakespeare center, american shakespeare center on tour, entertainment, I am cold, Martian Death Flu, piercing eloquence tour, pumpkin pants, shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew, the drama of not doing a show, theater, theatre on July 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Fairmont, Minnesota, March 15:
We performed at the Fairmont Opera House, which has the dubious honour of being the (I can safely say) penultimate example of any variety of the Drama of Not Doing a Show. This particular strain of Drama is the same we experienced in Kokomo, Indiana, and the same (albeit with advance notice) [...]
More Birthday, More Pictures
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged birthweek, Shakespeare Nerd endorsements on November 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I know this is sort of becoming a Birthweek rather than Birthday, but perhaps this attenuation is an advantage of being continually belated, and I thank the belated wishes of many dear friends for the contributions towards making this a week-long event. I was originally (in 1920) born on Thanksgiving, and consequently it is fitting that [...]
Happy (Belated) Birthday to Me
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 1920, Absurd City Girl, How to Make a Shakespeare Nerd Laugh, sheep on November 27, 2007 | 1 Comment »
We interrupt our irregularly-scheduled program to bring you something less topically relevant and less tardy than the average post. Not that this is saying much.
And let the record show that I am belated in wishing my own birthday to myself, for any of you whom I have wished something belatedly, or for any of you [...]
‘Sblood, I love my Red Sox heartily
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Boston, Cinco Ocho Jig, Red Sox, touring on October 29, 2007 | 3 Comments »
So I was trying for a very long time to figure out some way in which I could relate today’s haze of Red-Sox-related joy to the actual Bardolatrous subject of this blog. I noted last night, whilst watching the post-game blather, that one of the owners (I forget who) referred to the team as a “band [...]
This day is called the Feast of Crispian
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Henry V, shakespeare, St. Crispin's Day on October 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
As your friendly neighborhood Shakespeare Nerd, it is my duty to wish you a Happy St. Crispin’s Day! Ironically, we have the day off, and won’t be doing Henry the Fifth until Saturday. Nevertheless, this is the closest I’ve yet come to my lifelong dream of being in a production of Henry on October 25th. [...]
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 [...]
World’s Most Unlikely Blogger
Posted in Uncategorized on June 25, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I suppose, technically, that any one of the numerous people across the globe who do not have a computer might seem a more suited to the title of ‘World’s Most Unlikely Blogger,’ but I fear that time may prove that I write on this blog about as often as, say, a Bangladeshi villager. Before I [...]
