Here are a few posts from last week's Greenpage that might be worth your time:
Art Talk with Anita Hollander
Art Works: As described by the New York Times, Anita Hollander is “provocative, funny, moving, communicative and beautifully polished…She has a wide range of vocal colors which she uses with dramatic sensitivity as well as comic insight…All this plus a charming presence that flavors everything she does.” Her extensive resume includes notable roles in Cabaret, CATS, Brighton Beach Memoirs, and Oklahoma! just to name a few productions. Hollander also wrote and continues to perform Still Standing, a one-woman show that chronicles her adjustment to losing her left leg to cancer in 1977. In addition to her work as an actor and arts educator, Hollander actively campaigns for wider inclusion of artists with disabilities in all aspects of the arts and entertainment industries. We spoke with Hollander by e-mail about her version of the artist life and the challenges of getting the arts to be “truly reflective of the diversity that is our country.”
Goodspeed Musicals Will Open New Artists Village
Stage Directions: You’ve heard a lot in recent years about theatres spending millions to build fancy new theatre buildings, but I believe this is the first I’ve heard of a theatre building new houses for their artists. On Monday, Nov. 14, Goodspeed Musicals will cut the ribbon on their new Artists Village, a collection of 17 new homes of varying sizes (townhouses as well as 3, 4 and 6-bedroom homes) offering 65 fully-furnished bedrooms (each with their own private bath) for their artists. Goodspeed will use these home to offer better accommodations to visiting artists, but they’ll also use the village to offer more time to writing teams to work on a project, and the houses will be an anchor for economic development in the East Haddam neighborhood.
A Playwright’s Playwright
Gwydion Suilebhan: I have been thinking about Ashbery and Bishop ever since I saw a production of Caryl Churchill’s Mad Forest at Forum Theatre not long ago. (I have intentionally delayed this blog post so that it appeared after the run of the play was over; I’m not a reviewer, nor do I want to be — I am simply a playwright thinking about his craft.) I have been an admirer of Churchill’s work for some time, ever since my first reading of Top Girls, and I was thrilled to be able to see more of it in person. I’m also a great admirer of Forum, which is one of the most ambitious companies in the DC area. No challenge is too great for them, and they swing for the fences every time.After the show, however, I found myself thinking: this is a playwright’s play. She’s using structure to reflect the psychology of revolution. The first act’s snippets of story are reflective of the way narrative is thwarted in a tyrannical state; the second act’s outpouring of story is the revolution itself, narratives released from their chains; and the third act is what happens after the revolution, when the long-repressed narratives begin to conflict and twist and reveal both their fault lines and their secrets. How clever of her, I decided… perhaps a bit too clever.
'Dusk' deals with end-of-life issues
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: Debra Caplan from Allegheny General Hospital wants to spark more conversation about dealing with end-of-life issues. "It's all about listening," says the senior vice president who oversees the hospital's Northside Partnership. To help open some ears, the Partnership, the Jewish Healthcare Foundation, Forbes Hospice and the Area Agency on Aging on Wednesday will present "Dusk," a 60-minute play that deals with the decision-making process.
10 Minutes of Hobbit-y Goodness
Topless Robot: Peter Jackson's fourth video blog for The Hobbit came out, and holy hell is it a joy. First of all, it's 10 minutes of behind the scenes goodness, and so you get to see Martin Freeman as Bilbo, Ian McKellan as Gandalf, all the dwarves, some Mirkwood, all sorts of stuff. Then there's the video's ostensible theme, which is 3-D. I know most of us are sick of 3-D, and I don't know that this will change your mind, but it is fascinating to discover how insane the shooting process is.
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