Disclaimer: More on some of the objects in the title than others. In fact, the only thing you can really count on is persiflage.
Jefferson City, Missouri, March 6:
I remember feeling less ill by the time we drove to Missouri, because I also remember being irate. The latter condition was due to the March 4th primaries having [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Merchant of Venice’
Theatre, Film, and Food in Jefferson City
Posted in On Touring, tagged acting, american shakespeare center, american shakespeare center on tour, entertainment, Equity rules (apocryphal?), Merchant of Venice, Pavolvian Response to Bush Bullshit, piercing eloquence tour, shakespeare, the worst movie I've ever seen, theater, theatre on May 30, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Merchant of Venice’s Courtroom in a Courtroom
Posted in On Touring, Pictures, tagged acting, Alisa Ledyard's feet, american shakespeare center, american shakespeare center on tour, entertainment, how do you remember all those lines, Merchant of Venice, Monty Python, piercing eloquence tour, shakespeare, theater, theatre, touring theatre on March 25, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Today’s title brought to you by Bardolatry’s Department of Redundancy Department! This is a companion post to the longer (yes, longer) post on our entire week in Indianapolis.
We performed the Courtroom Scene from Merchant of Venice in an actual courtroom, followed by a discussion led by a panel of professors from different departments in IUPUI. Here is [...]
We Go to a Party!
Posted in On Touring, tagged acting, american shakespeare center, american shakespeare center on tour, Byron, entertainment, Highway Irony, I am cold, Merchant of Venice, piercing eloquence tour, shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew, theater, theatre, touring theatre on March 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sub-title: Also, it snowed.
Sub-sub-title: Also, we had these Shakespeare plays we did.
Dayton, Ohio, February 21-22:
On the American Shakespeare Center On Tour Weather Map, we can see the vans moving up here while this front of snowy misery moves down from the artic north like the Assyrian coming down like a wolf on the fold and [...]
Taming of the Fifth Merchant in Alabama
Posted in On Touring, tagged acting, american shakespeare center, american shakespeare center on tour, entertainment, Henry V, I am cold, Merchant of Venice, piercing eloquence tour, shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew, theater, theatre, touring theatre, why bad weather happens to good people on March 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Huntsville, Alabama, February 14-16:
One of the problems with God’s Geographical Reminder That Life is Not Fair (otherwise known as Florida) is the question of why bad weather happens to good people. We drove into a cold front as we moved west, so that when we emerged from the vans in Huntsville, Alabama, the temperature hovered [...]
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 [...]
Suspense, Surprise, Shakespeare and ‘Shylock wins!’
Posted in On Touring, tagged acting, american shakespeare center, american shakespeare center on tour, hijinks of irregular repertory, Merchant of Venice, piercing eloquence tour, Romantic Poet floozy, shakespeare, shylock wins, the drama of not doing a show, theater, theatre, touring theatre on January 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Washington, D.C., November 15:
Over generations of touring troupes at the American Shakespeare Center, Georgetown has acquired notoriety for being one of the least welcoming venues on the tour. And by ‘least welcoming’ I do not mean that they have set walls with broken glass around their perimeters, nor do they spit upon our actor gabardines [...]
