A very short play I wrote is being produced by the Alumnae Theatre Company as part of the Nuit Blanche festivities on Oct. 4, 2008. It should play on the main floor, “Fran’s Cafe” for the evening, sometime between 10:00 p.m. and 1:00 a.m. It’s a vampire story with a late night waitress, an innocent […]
I recently finished reading Stephen Clarke’s Merde Happens and Stephen Colbert’s I Am America (And So Can You!), two humorous books that take an ironic look at American life by two men both called Stephen C. Conspiracy? I certainly think so. The thing about humour is it doesn’t change people’s minds. Nobody laughs at something
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I enjoyed Georges Flipo’s Le Vertige des auteurs. The anti-hero, Sylvain Vasseur, is a middle-aged functionary forced into early retirement. Vasseur has very simple tastes. Until the day of his retirement, he shows interest only in cycling, sex with his long-suffering wife, beer drinking and watching the Tour de France. At his retirement party, his
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Last night we had a lovely party for my husband’s mother with cake, way too much food and, of course, chocolate. Today I am hoping the driving rain we had most of yesterday is over. The Swedish family is off to Canada’s Wonderland to ride roller coasters. I can’t attend because of a funeral. Although
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2007_031217-18March0008Originally uploaded by cerealboxreader. It’s finally over! “Eulalie and the Great March” drew a decent crowd and some thoughtful comments during the talkback. The playwright should be pleased. I taped the show but I have been having computer problems that prevent me from editing it and making a DVD. Soon. The computer goes back into
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Gabrielle encourages Eulalie. .
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I haven’t been blogging lately due to computer problems. They are not completely fixed but I’m posting anyway. I spent Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evening plus all day today casting a play. I haven’t been reading much, but I did listen to over 85 prepared monologues plus another 80 or so cold readings. I’ve found
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