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“50 Cormorants 50″
I’ve written before about cormorants, the slim, elegantly graceful black fishing birds that cruise our shoreline.
This year, as I walked the beach in the last days before our first opening night in late May (Heartbreak House, May 25), I came upon something unique in my 20+ years of beachcombing.
“50″ Fairyworlds
” . . . you live in a fairyworld,” says Lady Chavender (Catherine McGregor) to her husband, Arthur (Peter Krantz), in On the Rocks (by Bernard Shaw and Michael Healey, at the Court House).
That’s especially easy to believe about my own onstage life this season, in Rocks and The Admirable Crichton (by J. M. Barrie, [...]
Age of Arousal and Serious Money — Again!
After writing about Age of Arousal and Serious Money last time, I realized I hadn’t really drawn any conclusions about the relationship between the two plays.
Shaw Openings . . . and Coincidences
The simple pleasures of each Shaw season for an actor include the unexpected coincidences and congruencies that appear in the two different shows assigned to you. Sometimes these are startling and revelatory, sometimes simply mildly amusing. For example, this season I appear in two very different comedies, Harvey and John Bull’s Other Island, set in [...]
Harvey Rolls On!
I know, I know, it’s Harvey, Harvey, Harvey all the time — or at least it seems that way! Now a holdover of two weeks is planned, moving our closing date into the middle of November. Our play is obviously attracting a wider and wider audience — and with sometimes surprising results.
Recently I took part [...]
What’s Up With Harvey?
Thursday 22 July 2010
When I’m asked what it’s like playing in such a successful comedy as Harvey, my answer often is that it reminds me of the summer stock shows of my youth.
As an impressionable 13-year-old , I performed in Peterborough and Port Carling with The Straw Hat Players in a series of plays with [...]
What do May 27, June 5, June 16 and today, July 7, have in common? Right! They ALL mark the beginning of my blog for the 2010 season!
What do May 27, June 5, June 16 and today, July 7, have in common? Right! They ALL mark the beginning of my season blog for 2010!
UNDERSTUDY TRIAL BY FIRE (II)
Meanwhile, my hurried blurt of a phone call to my daughter had initiated a cascade of action on the home front.
Two miles from our home, my wife walked into her usual hair salon for a hard-won Saturday appointment, only to be greeted by a flurry of staff members: “There’s a message from your family.” ”But I [...]