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A Meditation on Virginity
A Meditation on Virginity
I very much enjoyed the Stratford Festival production of All’s Well That Ends Well at the Tom Patterson Theatre under the direction of Scott Wentworth. Curiously it was the third production we saw at the Festival this year that begins with a grave (Richard III & Hamlet) – a subtext?
In All’s Well it is the grave of Helen’s (Jessica B. Hill) father who has left her in the care of Countess of…
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#All&039;s Well That Ends Well#André Sills#comedy#manipulation#marriage#Ontario#photographs#Scott Wentworth#Seana McKenna#Shakespeare#Stratford#Stratford Festival#Tom Patterson#Toronto
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A Few Mini-Reviews || Here They Are!
I’m trying to clean my Netgalley/Edelweiss shelves of old arcs before the end of the year so don’t mind me if I post a bunch of mini-reviews after each other. And this time I’m really trying and doing instead of saying I’ll do it and then I don’t.
See my Disclaimer Page for a full disclaimer: I received these e-arc through the authors and review sites such as Edelweiss and NetGalley in exchange…
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#book review#childrens#comedy#contemporary#Cornelia Funke#Daniel Errico#fantasy#Guillermo del Toro#horror#Leanne Hall#Mystery#Pan&039;s Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun#Play#retellings#Shiloh Penfield#The Bravest Knight Who Ever Lived#The Gaps#William Shakespeare&039;s Much Ado About Mean Girls#young adult
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Adam Conover: Connecting Comedy to Education
He made it easy to laugh at the most overwhelming topics...
Some people say that politics don’t belong in entertainment. Taking a mere glance at centuries worth of literature and playwriting would prove that this is very much not the case. Going back as far as the 1500s, you can see the great political impact that Shakespeare’s plays had on society in England. Comedy is a highly intriguing genre; there’s no boundaries as to what it must be. What a person…
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#adam conover#adam ruins everything#comedy blog#comedy website#mecha media#politics don&039;t belong in entertainment#Shakespeare&039;s plays#slapstick comedy#slapstik comedy#society in England#truTV
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Now Available: So Quick Bright Things Come to Confusion by Caren Gussoff Sumption
Now Available: So Quick Bright Things Come to Confusion by Caren Gussoff Sumption
Readers and critics alike have been pleasantly surprised by Caren Gussoff Sumption’s manners comedy and post-colonial love story set against an inventive backdrop of deep space colonization. So Quick Bright Things Come To Confusion centers on exo-geologist James Blackthorne, who volunteered to survey a newly-discovered planet. Once there, he finds himself alone and falling for Aveliin, an…
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#Caren Gussoff Sumption#Manners Comedy#Midsummer Night&039;s Dream#Shakespeare#So Quick Bright Things Come to Confusion#Space colonization
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Much Ado About Nothing
Much Ado About Nothing
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare.
By Amisha Jayakar/Books and Bashful Words
In a nutshell.
A play, a solace, a masterpiece and an epiphany; that is what Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing epitomizes for me. It is Shakespeare’s sheer brilliance and literary genius that never fails to render readers pleasantly gob-smacked. His tragedies are monumental, his romantic comedies-…
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#beatrice#benedick#book review#books and bashful words#classic#english literature#much ado about nothing#play reviews#review#romantic comedy#shakespeare&039;s comedies#william shakespeare#write-up
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Book-day and the day of the Bard,
Book-day and the day of the Bard,
From women’s eyes this doctrine I derive:
They sparkle still the right Promethean fire;
They are the books, the arts, the academes,
That show, contain and nourish all the world.
(love’s labors lost)
why not go for a two-for-one and give birth to a funnest book on the finest bard –https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B082RFLCXK
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B082RFLCXK
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If Only Shakespeare Knew About the Parking Lot - Richard III
If Only Shakespeare Knew About the Parking Lot – Richard III
If someone new to Shakespeare were to ask me what play they should start with, I would say A Midsummer Night’s Dream or As You Like It if you’re in the mood for a comedy, Macbeth if you want action, and Hamlet if you want his best work. I’m basic like that. None of these, however, is my favorite of Shakespeare’s plays.
For that, you have to look to his oft-neglected histories, and seek out the…
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#Blogging#Books#Characters#Horror comedy#Plays#Reviews#Richard III#Richard III analysis#Shakespeare#Shakespeare Discussion#Shakespeare pop culture#Tragedy#Women in Shakespeare&039;s plays#Writing
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TBT - Bill (2015)
TBT – Bill (2015)
After watching the lovely but quite sad Ordinary Love for my Tuesday Review this week, I wanted to find something a bit sillier for my Throwback Thursday Review. After all, we’re living in quite a challenging time, so it’s important to find something to laugh about. I recently watched Horrible Histories: The Movieand it was pretty good. I know that I’m way too old for the television show at this…
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#Children&039;s film#comedy#film review#films#history#horrible histories#silly#TBT#William Shakespeare
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Shakespeare in the Squares: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Shakespeare in the Squares: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
I don’t think you can get any more summery than this production. Performed in London’s most beautiful garden squares; exploiting the natural surroundings, basking in the glorious evening light; sporting festive bunting and fairy lights; featuring happy songs and jesting; staging the Shakespearean comedy for summertime – you get the gist. Following the success of Much Ado About Nothing (2016), Rom…
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Goodbye to 2017 and to Some New Jersey Greats
The movie and television worlds lost some legendary figures during 2017. Here in New Jersey we mourned a few of our own:
David Cassidy, as he looked as a 1970s teen idol, spent part of his youth in West Orange.
Richard Anderson — The Long Branch native was best-known for playing government agent “Oscar Goldman” in two 1970s television hits, The Six Million Dollar Man and its spinoff The Bionic…
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#Allendale#American Shakespeare Theatre#Ann Wedgeworth#Bergen County#Bergen Performing Arts Center#Bill Cosby#Casino#Chappelle&039;s Show#Chapter Two#Charlie Murphy#Chuck Low#Clerks#Comedy Central#Count Basie Theatre#Dave Chappelle#David Cassidy#Dean Martin#Earle Hyman#Eddie Murphy#Emmy Award#Englewood#Evelyn Ward#famous New Jerseyans who died in 2017#Frank Vincent#Freehold#Garden State#Goodfellas#HBO#Highlands#Irvington
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There's Always Vanilla (George A. Romero)
Released as part of Arrow Video's Between Night & Day set, Graham looks at George Romero's little-known - there's always vanilla.
To mangle Shakespeare, there are two types of horror directors: those who are born horror directors, and those who have it thrust upon them. Arrow Films’ Between Night and Dawn box set reveals George A Romero to be the latter. Consisting of the three films Romero made in between his landmark debut Night of the Living Dead and its extraordinary sequel Dawn of the Dead, it shows the late director…
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#Advertising#Arrow Video#Charles Bukowski#dawn of the dead#George A Romero#Haskell Wexler#Horror#mad men#Season of the Witch#sex comedy#The Crazies#There&039;s Always Vanilla#William Greaves#William Shakespeare
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The Winter's Tale Opens at Bard on the Beach
The Winter’s Tale Opens at Bard on the Beach
This week, Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale joined the schedule at Bard On The Beach. Director Dean Paul Gibson, a Bard veteran, has crafted a classic interpretation of the complex play. Part tragedy, part romance, part comedy, the production is divided into two acts, two eras and two locations. The Winter’s Tale Opening in Sicilia, the simple staging finds five columns serving duty to form the…
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Hermia & Helena
HERMIA & HELENA opens in a New York that might, until the clues cohere, be Buenos Aires. Flowers that could be in any garden, fulgent with color. The echo of drumming on the avenues. A city park – where? The impression depends, to be sure, on a sense of both cities. The Argentine director Matías Piñeiro has lived and worked in both, and he has, in this film, written a poem in which the cities…
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#Argentina#Buenos Aires#Comedy#Matías Piñeiro#Midsummer Night&039;s Dream#New York#Romance#Shakespeare#Spanish Language Cinema
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Shakespearean Tragedy Defined
Modern definitions of the word tragedy don’t help when trying to explain the niceties of Shakespearean tragedy. Our sensationalist news channels such as Sky and CNN are very quick to bring us the latest tragedy; a passenger jet crashes with the loss of all on board; a bridge collapses causing mayhem for home-bound commuters; a school is in lock-down after a young student kills his teacher and…
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#Aristotle#catharsis#Groucho Marx#hamartia#Macbeth#Shakespeare&039;s Comedies Histories and Tragedies
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The first images of Joseph Fiennes as Michael Jackson that you can't unsee
The first images of Joseph Fiennes as Michael Jackson that you can’t unsee
Last year, a British TV production was announced starring white actor Joseph Fiennes as Michael Jackson. The trailer, released Wednesday, gives viewers the first glimpse of the controversial casting choice in action. USA TODAY Bad news, 2017: The Joseph Fiennes-as-Michael Jackson comedy has arrived, and it’s not pretty. The Internet was aghast when the first trailer for the UK show Urban Myths…
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#1998&039;s Shakespeare in Love#Bob Dylan to Adolf Hitler#British TV production#Elizabeth#first glimpse of the controversial casting#first images of Joseph Fiennes#first images of Joseph Fiennes as Michael Jackson#Joseph Fiennes as Michael Jackson#Joseph Fiennes-as-Michael Jackson comedy#Michael & Marlon#Michael Jackson#The Joseph Fiennes-as-Michael Jackson comedy has arrived#trailer#UK show Urban Myths dropped#Urban Myths#Urban Myths takes
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