Proving once again that the higher the body count onstage, the greater the silliness backstage...

( The Official Macbeth Quote List )

After deleting the nine, count 'em, NINE spambot comments that cropped up overnight, I have now finally restricted commenting to registered users. :-P I saw that the privacy settings (which I haven't looked at in aaaaaages) now have a checkbox for spam protection, which I have now belatedly turned on, but really, nobody has any reason to comment on ( Read more... )

And then awaaaaayyyy we go!

( Hell is murky, but our signage is clear )

Are here, in unedited form. (I might have to do something fun with them, but not until the weekend.)

LADY. MAC. BETH. *happy actor dance*

I've actually been sitting on this for a week and a half, and already started rehearsal, but now it's all official and public and stuff.

GreenMan Theatre Troupe (same place I did Dracula and Pride and Prejudice), October 19 - November 4. Deets should be on their website soon, but in the meantime you can get ( Read more... )

Second season of Slings and Arrows playing as background in my sewing room. Geoffrey has just proposed his idea to show Macbeth as vulnerable and human by having Lady M undress him when he gets home from battle. Oliver sputters indignantly that "Macbeth is a monster! Do we ever see Frankenstein with his dick out?"

Well, actually, Oliver, now that ( Read more... )

Contingent on her schedule, it is very likely that I will be meeting Lucinda Hawksley for coffee next week.

Guess what book I still can't find?

In the process of turning the library upside down for it again, of course, I did find the book whose title I couldn't remember after telling a fellow actor about it at a play reading in August. I've had ( Read more... )

Ben Mankiewicz just introduced Forbidden Planet on TCM by explaining that it is of course based on The Tempest, except that said play "didn't have spaceships, robots, and invisible monsters. Which is why I don't care for it ( Read more... )

Insighful, thought-provoking post over at Hoyden About Town on Ophelia, violence, and what is and is not in the text: On Ophelia, Who Never Got to Be a Hoyden:

There is no indication in the text that Hamlet harms Ophelia physically in this scene, no stage direction and no line that specifically requires such an action for it to make sense. If ( Read more... )

Finally got round to editing the Midsummer video diary. Crazy abounds.

( Silly food tricks, comedy kung fu, and Madiha vs. Spider )