a novel by Debra Murphy. Book One of The Ashland Grail Cycle
Posted in Iago, Shakespeare on Apr 23rd, 2008
Ever since I began writing The Mystery of Things, I’ve had a fascination for Shakespeare’s villains in general and Iago in particular. It’s the “why?” question, as Dan Donohue, one of our favorite actors, points out in a lively and revealing interview on the Oregon Shakespeare Festival website called “Playing Iago.”
My favorite quote, besides “You’ll [...]
Posted in Shakespeare on May 31st, 2007
A good friend of my son’s is across the pond, as they say, studying abroad in London. As a theater major, she’s doing some exhaustive “homework” taking in a whole slew of London stage productions. Naked Harry Potter, for one (Daniel Radcliffe in Peter Shaffer’s Equus) to which Rachael reports that “he’s definitely growing up.”
A [...]
Posted in Shakespeare on Mar 29th, 2007
…in a sauna.
I’m not kidding.
This is a perfectly outrageous clip from Dame Edna’s show, filmed around the time of the release of Mel’s Hamlet, and posted on Mel’s MySpace page:
http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog&friendID=98949622
And in case you missed it, here’s our bardolatry review of Mel’s Hamlet, directed by Franco Zeffirelli, which I wrote back in 2002 or thereabouts.
And if [...]
The myth of St. George and the Dragon comes to new and provocative life in this mystery-thriller set in Milwaukee.
This is the story of James Ireton, a gifted young Shakespeare scholar haunted by a tragic past and recurring nightmares of a Knight, a Lady and a vicious Dragon. James thinks they’re just dreams, but when two people close to him fall victim in a seemingly motive-less series of brutal murders, James discovers there may be a very real Dragon preying in the shadows of his life. Worse, if he doesn’t find a bit of St. George in himself, the woman he loves may prove the Dragon’s ultimate victim.