And They Say Theater is Dead
They have obviously never seen this:
The same theatre company has also done a production of Robocop for the stage.
Some Cool Links for the Hot Summer
If you find yourself avoiding going out or moving much because of the heat this summer, here are some links that will give you something to do and make you all smarter and betterer in the process. First up, Minnesota Public Radio has a cool, relatively new show called Wits and their final show of …
Of Going on Facebook Hiatus and Moving Into a New Apartment
Facebook Hiatus I decided to take a hiatus from Facebook for a number of reasons, and so I will not be logging onto the site for the rest of the July. If you didn’t see my status about this, I just wanted to remind people that while my blog posts and Flickr updates will post …
June 2011 Reading
Ubu Roi by Alfred Jarry
Loveplay by Moira Buffini
Each in His Own Way by Luigi Pirendello
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu
In the Shadow of the Glen by J.M. Synge
Love and Intrigue by Friedrich Schiller
If by Lord Dunsany
The Stronger by August Strinberg
The Outlaw by August Stringberg
Pandora’s Box by Frank Wedekind
Violence by Slajov Zizek
Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead by Sara Gran
A Problem of Translation
Is there a voice for the junkies and the homeless and the lost in contemporary literature? In theatre? And not a patronizing middle-class “oh look at the poor folk” voice, but one that takes the time to live in that world, to respect the lives of those in the streets and trenches that make up …
Click These Links and You’ll Be Smarter
We all know that Hollywood depends on cliches, but the reality of what that means is starkly revealed in this video.
The truth about surviving in cold water immersion.
A really good article about Twitter and its uses.
Go. Read. Be smarter.
Interactive Version of Samuel Beckett Story
Nothing to say but wow, I really, really would love to see an installation of this. UNMAKEABLELOVE is a revisioning of Beckett’s initial investigation that focuses and makes interactively tangible, a state of confrontation and interpolation between our selves and another society that is operating in a severe state of physical and psychological entropy. UNMAKEABLELOVE …
Writing Contests
Any LtL readers who are writers might be interested in these: Kaleidoscope Arts Festival: “a regional arts festival hosted by Slippery Rock University, seeks submissions for new works to be produced in April of 2012. Winning submissions will be performed as part of Brave New Plays, a festival of world-premiere drama under the auspices of …
Warhol Screen Tests as Screen Saver
I recently came across the film 13 Most Beautiful . . . Songs for Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests on Netflix and was captivated by the simple beauty of what I consider to be living portraits (sort of like those moving pictures from the Harry Potter movies). From the distribution company: Between 1964 and 1966, Andy …