So we had our history final the Tuesday before Christmas--it was modified open book in that we were allowed to have in hand the last text we studied, Le Livre de la Cité des Dames by Christine de Pizan, and we could even have notes in it, but we were not allowed any other text. (And yet, we were expected to be able to cite and reference those ( Read more... )

So, we started Dante's Paradiso last week.

I effing LOVE it.  It is beautiful and serene and challenging and I love it.  It is definitely the most interesting text we've had so far--infinitely more interesting than Aquinas's Summa Theologica, or even Sylvestri's Cosmographia.  Once we got into the Aristotelian era, we moved away from dialectic ( ( Read more... )

...It is estimated that only about five percent of all the compositions of ancient writers actually survives.

Oh, MAN. Five percent. Unbelievable. We are missing out on so much. Why did that stupid fire have to burn down the Alexandrian library, why? Just imagine what else is out there, that we know about because other writers have referred ( Read more... )

So Holla Holla is doing Romeo and Juliet this summer and I'm excited ( Read more... )

Ha! I finally figured out how to use that userpic factory so as to make an icon of my beloved home state. Take THAT, Technology!

Michael and I saw Eccentricities of a Nightingale on Monday night. It's a (heavily) revised version of my favorite Tennessee Williams play, Summer and Smoke, about the somewhat eccentric daughter of an Episcopal ( Read more... )

I just got off the phone with the Hudson Current reporter from last night.She asked me a lot of questions, like would I say there's more music in this production of A Christmas Carol than others I've seen (I said well, there are about 15 pieces in this production but they're not set pieces, they're used in a variety of ways--to comment on the ( Read more... )

I've been reading The Decameron lately. I bought it last April at a used bookstore in the Raleigh/Durham airport and have just now gotten around to it. It took me a little while to get into it but now it's a little addictive. Very reminiscent of The Canterbury Tales, which I read in high school, and which I should reread.

We had Thyme rehearsal ( Read more... )

I posted some of Jason's beautiful pictures (his photography is what makes them so lovely) on the Holla Holla MySpace. I really love that setting--it's a tricky space but man, you just can't get a better, more beautiful setting for a play like Twelfth Night than right on the river like that. My lover stands on golden sands...and watches the ships ( Read more... )

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The Shakespeare showcase is tonight. Duncan, Jason and Paula will be there--yay! There's a champagne reception afterward and then I'm sure we'll get something to eat nearby. I love performing in the Village; I feel very close to the spirit of my grandmother.

Julie said last night that she wants to do The Last Night of Ballyhoo, which is ( Read more... )