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BLOGORRHEA: A cabal for all
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Thursday, October 27, 2011. A cabal for all. You’ve heard of a murder of crows, a gaggle of geese and a pride of lions. I think a cabal of dramaturgs describes us nicely, don’t you? Dramaturgs together make for a disparate group, but they tend to have one important thing in common — a talent for bilocation. Because we stand inside the artistic process as well as. Outside it, frequently we’re able to hold on to a detached sense of perspective that the theater really, really needs. If you ax me. Playwritin...
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BLOGORRHEA: Embraceable Her
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Sunday, October 2, 2011. Brace Yourself: Louanne’s Benefit for Benefits. 7 pm Monday, October 3. 1515 SW Morrison St. If, like me, extant commitments prevent you attending on Monday, not to worry — just go to any Wells Fargo Bank and make a deposit to the Louanne Moldovan Fund. Or mail a check to the Fund c/o Cygnet Productions, PO Box 15205, Portland OR 97293. Here’s some more information from the Facebook page. Variations on a Bard. And more (including the command performance of Chicken Kamasutra.
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BLOGORRHEA: Awake and dream
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Thursday, March 1, 2012. Blame it on Inception. I guess, that silly video game-cum-action movie. In 2010 it made pop hash out of the idea of lucid dreaming. And now, premiering tonight, is a new broadcast show (on NBC) called Awake. That takes up some of these notion and adds its own twist. Suddenly this once obscure phenomenon is everywhere. What is lucid dreaming? There’s a ton of stuff on the interwebs about this nowadays. Forums. Why are you here, what do you want? Or, to be more abstract about, if y...
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BLOGORRHEA: May 2012
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Tuesday, May 22, 2012. There’s too much good theater to keep up with it all. The city’s definitely on the national theater map — even if our current rep is that we’re the best tryout town in the nation. (Translation: the place where you spend a couple of years to beef up your résumé before you head to Chicago.) ¶. Or Louisville, or Minneapolis, or …? Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Portrait by Gwenn Seemel. Judge’s Comments: 2016 OBA finalists in Young Adult Literature. NYC Fringe Contract: WARNING! My mothe...
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BLOGORRHEA: March 2011
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Thursday, March 24, 2011. Coming attractions: Charise Castro Smith. Charise Castro Smith’s amazing new play BoomCrackleFly. Opens tomorrow at Miracle Theater Group. 8212; and what an opening it will be. Ms. Smith’s here in town for occasion, and she was able to answer a few questions between rehearsals. And that it’s up to the director to figure out how to realize that vision? L and just watching this whole new world open up in front of me. Then about a year later I read Angels in America. Bouncing aroun...
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BLOGORRHEA: April 2011
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Wednesday, April 20, 2011. What are you doing on Shakespeare’s birthday? His putative birthday, anyway, which is this coming Saturday, April 23. I’m inviting you herewith to spend part of this high holiday talking about a subject central to the Bard’s life: playwriting. In honor of the upcoming Oregon Book Awards. And guess who’s moderating? How do you get known outside of Portland, which is fast becoming known as the nation’s favorite “tryout town”? These are a few things we might. If you haven’t ...
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BLOGORRHEA: May 2011
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Saturday, May 28, 2011. Mixed Blood wants YOU. Let's just admit it: it’s not very often that I weigh in on the major theater conundrums of our time, thank you for noticing. It’s not that I’m totally thoughtless, it’s just that there are others who do this more consistently, more deeply, and, well—generally more better. Parabasis. To name only two. The recent news from Mixed Blood. Yes, that’s right), announced this past week that at least for the 2011/12 season, it will not charge admission. An aside her...
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BLOGORRHEA: Once more into the screech
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Tuesday, September 20, 2011. Once more into the screech. A little post-TBA fallout for you. Remember Taylor Mac’s larger-than-life cabaret, subtitled The Ziggy Stardust Meets Tiny Tim Songbook. Taylor gave us a wild sing-a-long version of a Tiny Tim. Tune that can only be filed under: OB. SCURE. “The Other Side,” it was called, and I was thunderstruck when he started in on it, because I kid you not, I had been telling James all about that very song not a week before. Mind you; it was pre- DEVO. Don’...
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BLOGORRHEA: October 2011
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Thursday, October 27, 2011. A cabal for all. You’ve heard of a murder of crows, a gaggle of geese and a pride of lions. I think a cabal of dramaturgs describes us nicely, don’t you? Dramaturgs together make for a disparate group, but they tend to have one important thing in common — a talent for bilocation. Because we stand inside the artistic process as well as. Outside it, frequently we’re able to hold on to a detached sense of perspective that the theater really, really needs. If you ax me. Playwritin...
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BLOGORRHEA: March 2012
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Tuesday, March 20, 2012. Spring comes to Planet Earth. In honor of the first day of spring, a poem by Mary Oliver. This is from her collection House of Light. 8230;………………………. Has just risen from sleep. In the brisk and shallow restlessness. I think of her,. Her four black fists. Flicking the gravel,. Like a red fire. Touching the grass,. There is only one question:. How to love this world. I think of her. Like a black and leafy ledge. To sharpen her claws against. And its cities,. Down the mountain,.