Here are a few posts from last week's Greenpage that might be worth your time...
Here are just some of the ways theater depends on 'women's work,' often unpaid
Datebook: In honor of Labor Day, I got to team up with five female photojournalists at The Chronicle to explore the notion of women’s work. The team followed five Bay Area moms for an entire day each to document their paid and unpaid labor, which got me wondering about the unpaid women’s work of theater.John Adams' 'Antony and Cleopatra' utilizes a crucial role: opera prompter
NPR: To reach the prompter's box at the home of the San Francisco Opera, Matthew Piatt heads under the stage and walks down a long, narrow passageway. Then he shimmies up a metal ladder. "I always have to be careful not to rip my pants," Piatt says, as he hoists himself into a seat and pushes a button to propel himself upward several feet, using a hydraulic lift.How one Berkeley company plans to house traveling artists amid soaring Bay Area housing crisis
Datebook: Across the breezeway from Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s new Medak Center, fuchsia light from the set of the new musical “Goddess” streamed through an open loading bay door, like a portal to Narnia.Teenage ‘House of the Dragon’ Actor Thanks Intimacy Coordinator After Uncomfortable Sex Scene
jezebel.com: This week’s House of the Dragon episode was all about sex, with two teenage girl characters and their vastly different experiences at the heart of it all. Emily Carey was cast as one of these characters, Alicent Hightower, when she was just 17 years old. Having watched parts of HotD’s predecessor, Game of Thrones, Carey said in a Newsweek interview that she was initially afraid to take on the role of a teenage queen married to a much older man and the inevitably uncomfortable intimate scenes this would surely entail.Death of Ukrainian dancer on battlefield underscores costs of war
The Washington Post: The recent Ukrainian counteroffensive against Russian forces has been hailed as a stunning success, offering a jolt of optimism in a grueling nearly seven-month-old war. But the battlefield death earlier this week of beloved Ukrainian ballet dancer Oleksandr Shapoval, a father of two remembered as “a pure and bright soul,” crystallizes the dreadful cost of the nation’s military victories.
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