Entries from November 2008
Gap casting call rejects
November 18th, 2008 · 1 Comment
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Tags: parenting · photography
correspondence to the teacher
November 18th, 2008 · No Comments
Hello there. Hopefully you are enjoying your Sunday, and are far away from the computer. Gabriel came home very upset (and angry) about an incident with a backpack.
His version:
He was happily playing at latchkey when you came looking for Trevor’s backpack. He was surprised to find it attached to HIS backpack, and gave it to you as soon as he became aware. He states that you were upset with him, and said that you would talk to him about it on Monday. He, for some reason, believes that Abby hooked it onto his backpack, but his grandmother and I told him not to jump to conclusions.
He insists that he was completely unaware of Trevor’s backpack being hooked to his backpack. I can believe that he may not have noticed. However, the story is very odd told through the perception of a 7 year old boy. I don’t quite understand what all of the drama is about.
Can you please give me your version of what happened so that I can set him at ease?
Thank you for your time,
p.s.
He is reading over my shoulder, and would like me to tell you that he is not angry anymore. :) (also, he does not like the sentence where i referred to him as a 7 year old boy.)
Tags: parenting
Ko’olau (and Carnival of Samhain)
November 1st, 2008 · 1 Comment
My column in this month’s CUNY Advocate includes my review of Tom Lee’s extraordinary Ko’olau and a recommendation to check out the 7th annual Carnival of Samhain, curated by Drama of Works:
Photo courtesy of Jonathan Slaff
Tom Lee’s puppet theatrical Ko’olau is a beautifully crafted, highly emotional iteration of the story that draws on a variety of puppetry and musical traditions; Lee focuses less on violence and disease than on the bond that holds this family together as they fight to live and die together, on their own terms. [...] There has long been a thread of theatre theory that claims theatricality must be as invisible as possible if the audience is to become emotionally involved with the narrative on stage. This idea has been perpetuated, in part, by misreadings of Brecht’s writings, and by simplistic statements like “Wagner turned the house lights off; Brecht turned them back on.” It is not my intention to enter into such debates here, but it is sufficient to say that the same audiences who smiled delightedly at Lee’s ingenuous craftsmanship could be heard sniffling back tears at the death of Kaleimanu.
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This year’s Carnival runs for only three days (November 6th through November 8th), and misses the more spine-tingling potential of both October 31st and November 4th, but promises to be an exciting event nevertheless. An eclectic mix of puppet and burlesque acts that run the gamut from the genuinely creepy to the semi-sexy gothic farce, the Carnival of Samhain may well be the best way to dispose of $15 in early November.
Full article here.
Tags: reviews · self-promotion · theatre
NaPlWriMo
November 1st, 2008 · No Comments
Many of you are no doubt aware that November is National Novel Writing Month ( NaNoWriMo). More than 100,000 aspiring writers participated last year, more than 15,000 of them finishing a 50,000 word (or greater) first draft of a novel.
A couple of years ago, Dorothy Lemoult, inspired by NanoWriMo decided that novel writers shouldn’t have all the fun. She started National Play Writing Month ( NaPlWriMo) in 2006. So far, it’s much more modest than NaNoWriMo, but also has a higher rate of completion. Now that they’ve joined up with a 501(c)3 umbrella organization, NaPlWriMo is hoping to expand its number of participants dramatically.
The official month started about 10 hours ago as of this writing.
So get going. You’ve got some catching up to do.