I'm not really a clown kind of guy, but years ago, back in the 80's, I spent a memorable evening of theatre in the presence of one of the best. Avner the Eccentric, he called himself, and I remember laughing as hard as I have ever laughed that night. You know the kind of laugh …
George Bernard Shaw and the Fight for Pygmalion
"Don't talk to me of romances; I was sent into the world to dance on them with thick boots--to shatter, stab, and murder them." -- George Bernard Shaw. (His Collected Letters) The basic facts are these: George Bernard Shaw wrote the play on which the musical My Fair Lady is based 99 years ago, in 1912. …
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Thoughts on “My Fair Lady”
[Caveat: I wrote the following over the weekend before I'd had much a chance to read up on Shaw's take on things. Now I know more. Tomorrow I'll return to this theme. What follows in this post is uninformed and rambly, but I'd still be interested in seeing a production that came at the play …
Two Pennies Left: Why The “How” of a Thing Matters
FYI, up front, this post is not about flowers. It is about content and form in art-making, conversation, and relationship. It's about the connection of human essence and identity to the fundamental, structural realities aesthetic forms demand. It's about the challenge of creating art wherein form and content create a unity of power …
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Theatre Spiked Sunday Morning: On Experiencing “The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs”
Race. Labor. Civil War. Apple. Corporate responsibility, art, and Christ. The present moment, Sabbath, friendship, taking on the world. Somewhere in China, men, women, boys, and girls, each having singular, personal names just like we do, sacred mysteries all (see yesterday's post), will go to work today, and the only thing keeping them from flinging …
JEFF BERRYMAN 