Ever wonder what Shakespeare might have done with Quentin Tarantino's classic 1994 film Pulp Fiction?Well wonder no more - The Her Majesty's Secret Players production of "Pulp Shakespeare," continues its extended run at Theatre Asylum in Los Angeles. The Elizabethan take on the Tarantino masterpiece derives from Her Majesty's Secret Players commitment to staging modern stories and giving them a "classic twist thus allowing audiences to enjoy Shakespeare on a whole new level." Here's the trailer:
A Determined Reader and Book Patrol at 5
from the 2008 production Traces from the French Canadian theater company Les 7 doigts de la main.It has been a little over 5 years since I got a crazy idea to start blogging about books and their place in our world. The pace of change in the book universe has not slowed one bit since my first post and neither have the options for sharing and responding to the plethora of information about books that permeate the internet. While the pace of blogging has slowed somewhat recently it is not for lack of engagement nor interest - the availability of...
Modern Theater Begins With This Woman and This Extremely Rare Book
Hroswitha presenting a book to Emperor Otto I, with his niece,the Abbess of Gandersheim, in attendance.Woodcut by Albrect Dürer.She was a Benedictine nun of Gandersheim in Lower Saxony during the tenth century, highly educated, and the best Latin writer of her era. Her fame rests upon six “comedies” that resurrected the ancient drama and became the foundation for theater as we know it today.Hroswitha von Gandersheim (c. CE 935-1002), the nun-poetess also known as "The Mighty Voice," and "The Nightingale of Gandersheim" was a very special woman, a sister who became the mother of modern drama.Her plays, originally in manuscript,...