Tag Archives: death

the sun is down

“Is that gash in your leg Really why you have stopped? ‘Cause I’ve noticed all the others Though they’re gashed, they’re still going ‘Cause I feel like the real reason That you’re quitting, that you’re admitting That you’ve lost all the will to battle on Will the fight for our sanity Be the fight of [...]
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Rabbit Hole mini-review

I saw “Rabbit Hole” over the weekend, at Theatreworks New Milford. Thank you Carol! First, I liked the play. Second, I’m very surprised it won the Pulitzer. I thought Heather Nicolson was very good in the role of Izzy. She was very natural, and I believed almost everything she was experiencing. The other actors were [...]
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notes post-reading video

It's obvious from the video of the reading that some changes need to be made. This is always the case no doubt, but here are some things I thought of: It doesn't really take off (if it takes off) until "So how's the new play?". And that's really just cause it's a change of subject. [...]
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Aristophanes in "What Er Said"

This is about the play, “What Er Said”. Friend and I spoke about some of the themes relating to Hermes yesterday, and I wanted to say a little bit more, especially with regard to “The Frogs”, by Aristophanes. I find this very interesting, because I hadn’t realized that the play was like the Frogs until [...]
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cmap of play

Working on a cmap of “What Er Said”. It’s hard to know how helpful these things actually are, but they’re fun to do. This map will auto-update as I change it.
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outer banks poem

I wrote this while we were making a film down on the outer banks, NC last month. Hawk winds whip and scream through our screened long wallsAnd try to rip our door from its old, whiteWood. They pry it loose so that other squallsCan squeeze by and slam it closed again tight. Across the street [...]
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