Things change

 

“Often the mass emotions are those which seem the noblest, best and most beautiful. And yet, inside a year, five years, a decade, five decades, people will be asking, ‘How could you have believed that?’ because events will have taken place that will have banished the said mass emotions to the dustbin of history.”

 

 

epicure

 

The word epicure is currently associated with indulging the appetite, but that is a long way from the teachings of the man to whom we owe the word. The ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus taught a philosophy of simple pleasure, friendship, and a secluded life. He believed in the pursuit of pleasure, but pleasure for him comprised tranquility and freedom from pain—not the indulgence of the senses. Detractors of Epicurus in his own time and later, however, reduced his notions of pleasure to material and sensual gratification. When epicure entered English in the 16th century, it was synonymous with the modern term hedonist; later use carried the notion of refinement of palate that we see in the word today.



Rostrum

 

Rostrum 1. A platform, stage, dais, etc., for public speaking. 2. A beaklike projection on a warship, used for ramming another ship. In ancient Rome, a speaking platform was decorated with the beaks of captured ships. Hence the use of the term for a speaking platform. From Latin rostrum (snout, bill, beak), from rodere (to gnaw).




 

Drama!


 

What was Glenda's game?

 



Was Glenda, from the Wizard of Oz, actually the wicked witch of the North well?

There is a theory that Glenda (From the Welsh word for good)  dropped Dorothy's house on the wicked witch of the East and not the tornado and that she uses Dorothy again and again, to gain control of Oz.

One of the first things Glinda tells Dorothy is that she killed the wicked witch of the east, as if it were a good thing, although Dorothy doesn’t know what was good about it. When the witch of the West comes along Glinda then gives Dorothy the Ruby slippers, the only thing the bad witch seems to want.

However Glinda never tells Dorothy, who wants to go home more than anything else, that the slippers will take her.  Instead she has Dorothy go to Oz where she exposes the Wizard as a fake and then kills the witch of the East….and now all of oz belongs to Glenda who never got her hands dirty in the fight. 


NYCPlaywrights


Sat 4/24/2021 5:05 PM
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Greetings NYCPlaywrights

*** FREE THEATER ONLINE ***

SMOKEFALL
Written by Noah Haidle
Directed by Anne Kauffman

Change is in the air as Violet prepares to bring twin boys into the world. Inside her womb, her unborn sons contemplate their future, while the world around her is in transformation: her husband is secretly planning to leave her, her father is slipping into senility and her daughter has taken a vow of silence. Haunting and slyly funny, Smokefall explores the lives of this family in a lyrical treatise on the fragility of life and the power of love.
Streaming On Demand April 12 - 25, 2021

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ORIGINAL SIN 
by Julia Fennell

University Theater brings to you a virtual performance of Julia Fennell's Original Sin. When Judy Thomas, a devout pastor, is condemned to Hell for her single imperfection of wearing clothing with mixed fabrics, she is forced to learn that the difference between a sinner and a saint is just a few letters.

Join us for a stream at the following times:
Friday, April 30, 7:30pm
Saturday, May 1, 7:30pm
Run time: approximately 25 minutes



*** OPPORTUNITIES FOR PLAYWRIGHTS ***

Storyworks and InvestigateWest are soliciting pitches for a new audio play. StoryWorks is a groundbreaking documentary theater company that creates plays based on investigative reporting which are produced in communities across the country. 

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New Normal Rep is committed to presenting new and underproduced plays that explore the historical, cultural, and psychological forces that have helped to shape life in America and beyond in the 21st Century. Our 2021 season has been finalized, but we will soon be offering a developmental play reading series called The NNR INCUBATOR to continue to foster relationships with a diverse group of playwrights and to possibly source new material for future seasons.

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The Fifth Avenue Theater of New York is returning for a live performance in October 2021, in Midtown
Seeking short plays (no more than 10 pp/minutes), from playwrights from across the five boroughs and Long Island. Also seeking monologues (no more than 4pp/minutes). Musicals welcome! One submission per playwright.

*** FOR MORE INFORMATION about these and other opportunities see the web site at https://www.nycplaywrights.org ***


*** SHAKESPEARE 2021 ***

Shakespeare is coming back, and I can’t be the only person who has missed him.

There are signs of renewed activity at Shakespeare’s Globe, and talk of at least one star-studded production that is, after many delays, scheduled to be performed — can you believe it? — live. This comes after a year of a pandemic that has affected in various ways what has, and hasn’t, been staged, with Shakespeare a particular casualty.

Understandably so. Amid a theatrical state of affairs dominated by Zoom and a brief return of live performances of small-scale shows in London that came to an abrupt halt in mid-December, the logistics of Shakespeare have seemed pretty daunting. How do you accommodate a writer whose capacious narratives depend on size, scope and dimension in these strange, socially distanced times? It’s far easier to return to the two-character environs of, say, “Love Letters” or “The Last Five Years,” to name just two titles that could be (and were) easily married to coronavirus rules.

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Shakespeare's Birthplace is due to reopen on Monday 17 May. Tickets will go on sale Tuesday 27 April.
Visit Shakespeare’s Birthplace to walk in Shakespeare’s footsteps and explore his childhood world. Hear tales of Shakespeare’s family life and get up close to rare objects from the Trust’s world class collections as you discover how the extraordinary William Shakespeare continues to shape our lives today.

William Shakespeare was born in this house and grew up here with his parents and siblings. He also spent the first five years of his marriage living here with his wife Anne Hathaway. John and Mary Shakespeare were wealthy enough to own the largest house on Henley Street.

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After one of the most divided, isolating and lonely times in global history, Summer 2021 at Shakespeare’s Globe celebrates all that unites us: story, laughter, tears, nature and of course theatre.
This summer we’ll celebrate the lovers and the poets, revel in the power of our strong imaginations, and rediscover the wonder of theatre.
We cannot wait to open our great oak doors once again, and welcome you – our audience – safely back into our unique spaces for what promises to be a season of love, life and catharsis.

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11th World Shakespeare Congress, Singapore: Shakespeare Circuits
18-24 July 2021
Every five years, the World Shakespeare Congress regenerates understandings of Shakespeare across the world, bringing together scholars whose geo-cultural vantage points for working with Shakespeare both overlap and differ. A historical nodal point in global economies for Shakespeare, Singapore will now form a digital meeting point for the international aims of the first online Congress. 

The 11th World Shakespeare Congress will be held online from the National University of Singapore. The Congress theme of circuits draws attention to the passage of Shakespeare’s work between places and periods, agencies and institutions, positionalities and networks of production, languages and mediums. The theme is particularly suited to the online medium of the Congress, that gathers together such passages of Shakespeare’s work not by the movements of persons between places, but by creatively connecting and expanding our circuits in multimedia and live conversations. 

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New York City's Public Theater announced that it plans to bring back Shakespeare in the Park, the extremely popular free theater program in Central Park's Delacorte Theater. The Public Theater plans to produce Merry Wives from July 5 to August 29, to be directed by Saheem Ali. Delacorte is an outdoor theater, and with vaccinations on the rise, the theater company thinks a return is possible. This comes as welcome news to theater lovers, as Broadway likely won't be open until after Labor Day.

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2021 English Speaking Union National Shakespeare Competition

To vote in the 2021 ESU National Shakespeare Competition People's Choice Award, click on performance videos from our contestants on the right. Each performer has been assigned a number you can find in the description of their video. Using your mobile phone, text "NSC" and the number of your favorite performance to 212-818-1200 (example: NSC57). You will receive a return text confirming that your vote has been received. Please do not vote twice, your vote will not be counted.


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VIRTUAL IAS Festival - Transgender Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
04 May 2021, 3:00 pm–4:30 pm

With Professor Kate Chedgzoy, Dr Colby Gordon, Dr Andy Kesson, Emma Frankland, Robin Craig and Dr Ezra Horbury (chair)

This event is free.

‘Transgender Shakespeare and His Contemporaries’ features talks on transgender interpretations and adaptations of Shakespeare and contemporary early modern writers, and creative responses to how trans actors and writers can use these texts in modern practice.

Participants:

Chair:
Dr Ezra Horbury, British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University College London

Speakers:
Prof Kate Chedgzoy (Professor of Renaissance Literature, Newcastle University) – ‘Introduction’
Dr Colby Gordon (Assistant Professor of English, Bryn Mawr College) – ‘Pricked Out’
Dr Andy Kesson (Reader in Renaissance Literature, University of Roehampton) and Emma Frankland (theatre maker and performer) – 'Theatre History Is Theatre Now: Restaging Shakespeare’s Trans Contemporaries’
Robin Craig (Ph.D student, University of Roehampton and Shakespeare’s Globe) – ‘The Legacy of Boy Players at Shakespeare's Globe’
This talk forms part of the IAS fifth anniversary festival on the theme of ‘Alternative Epistemologies’.

Registration


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