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) [...]
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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 »
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 [...]
You Can’t Always Do the Play You Want
Posted in On Touring, tagged american shakespeare center, american shakespeare center on tour, entertainment, Five Stages of Grief, Henry V, hijinks of irregular repertory, piercing eloquence tour, shakespeare, Shakespeare On Demand, Taming of the Shrew, the drama of not doing a show, theater, theatre, touring theatre on January 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Warrentown, Virginia, January 16:
We kicked off the second half of our tour with three day trips within a couple hours’ drive of Staunton. All three performances were slated to be Henry V, which is statistically dissimilar to the general bookings for the three shows; in the fall, Taming of the Shrew seemed to account for roughly [...]
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 [...]
