Showing posts with label greek mythology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label greek mythology. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Four By Euripides

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Considering my years-long involvement with a Greek-mythology theater festival and my years-long obsession with Donna Tartt's The Secret ...
Sunday, January 19, 2014

"Orpheus and Eurydice" by Jeremy Dobrish: Mythology for Hipsters

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I've spent a significant portion of my life over the last four years involved with a theater festival that commissions new plays based o...
Monday, November 18, 2013

How the Bechdel Test Made Me a Better Playwright @ SF Theater Pub Blog

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Here's a blog post I've been meaning to write for nearly a year: How the Bechdel Test Made Me a Better Playwright . The post tells...
Saturday, June 22, 2013

Greek mythology isn't brain surgery... or is it?

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From Rivka Galchen's article on Elmhurst Hospital, The New Yorker , May 13, 2013: A young, very dark-skinned patient was jogging light...
Thursday, September 27, 2012

Taking Characters from Greek Mythology

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"How can you copyright an enterprise, a profession? I must be free to film a story of a newspaper publisher. If I am restrained, it wi...
Monday, February 13, 2012

Quick Hits: My Awesome Friends

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Some quick mid-February links that I cannot wait to share with you: My awesome friend Claire Rice is writing a new play titled English for ...
Thursday, February 2, 2012

"The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony": Advanced-Level Greek Mythology

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When you get involved with a theater festival based on Greek mythology , friends who wish to know more about Greek myths will come to you fo...
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Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Announcing Aphrodite

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Guess what's happening exactly one year from tonight? The San Francisco Olympians Festival will present a staged reading of a new on...
Monday, August 29, 2011

"Suddenly, Greek gods can be just as interesting and relevant as real people"

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A Metafilter thread today led me to this passage from the novel Cryptonomicon , by Neal Stephenson, that deals with the continuing relevan...
Thursday, July 21, 2011

Under the Sea: "Salty Towers" at Thunderbird Theatre

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Pity poor Poseidon. After he and his two brothers defeated Cronus and divided the world between them, Zeus gained dominion over the heavens...
Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Domestic Goddess: "Juno en Victoria" by Stuart Bousel

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Juno en Victoria , currently playing at Stage Werx in a production by Wily West Productions, is doubly distinguished: the second Stuart Bous...
Thursday, April 28, 2011

Zephyrus

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Even before I became involved with the San Francisco Olympians Festival , my family and I were naming our computers after Greek mythology (w...
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Tuesday, March 15, 2011

"Hermes," an Olympians Festival Success Story

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It's been eight months since I devoted my weekends to working the box office at the San Francisco Olympians Festival -- and it's se...
Thursday, February 3, 2011

My Favorite Moment from "Downton Abbey"

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I definitely became a fan of Masterpiece Theater's broadcasts of Downton Abbey over the past four Sundays. While the beginning of the ...
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Thursday, December 16, 2010

Notes on Two Theatrical Sequels

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There's been a lot of talk about how 2010-2011 is the year of multi-part plays in Bay Area theater. Three theaters teaming up to presen...
Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Shotgun's "In The Wound" (No, this has nothing to do with firearms)

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So, what should you do this weekend if you're jonesing for some outdoor theater that features a big cast and a story that takes place in...
Sunday, September 12, 2010

The Disappearance of a Prejudice

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I used to have a secret, snotty prejudice against playwrights who adapted old stories--particularly myths and fairy tales--into works of the...
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Saturday, July 3, 2010

July is Olympians Month!

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Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays for the rest of July, the gods will come to life in San Francisco! The San Francisco Olympians Festival ,...
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Tuesday, March 2, 2010

"No man is feliz till he's six feet under": Oedipus El Rey

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Blind , a modern-day adaptation of Oedipus Rex by Craig Wright, just opened in New York to bad reviews . But, perversely, I almost wish th...
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Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Odysseus in the Cafeteria

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Photo from t-shirtexpressions.com , where you can buy your very own Ithaca is Gorges shirt! My musings on The Odyssey below reminded me of ...