So I was in the middle of a temper tantrum just now because people on my twitter feed have been tweeting about seeing Palestinian Richard II at the Globe to Globe Festival, an event that has filled me with occasional rage and disappointment because I CANNOT AFFORD TO GO SEE IT and EVEN IF I COULD I HAVE CLASSES TO TEACH.
If there's any place near you showing the NT's production of All's Well That Ends Well -- and I don't know if there is; there's info here -- GO SEE IT. It is MAGNIFICENT.
My good friend faithhopetricks has been having a seriously terrible time of late. Specifically: her husband is in urgent need of life-saving heart surgery, and they are both unemployed and have neither savings nor insurance in a country which doesn't seem to consider medical care a basic human right. There's more information on the situation in the community
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