Monthly Archives: February 2014

It should be said from the outset that this is not of one of The Master’s best plays or comedies. However, this is a suitably frivolous, raunch-realized play for our coarse-focused age and so an unexpectedly successful Edmonton winter diversion. As mentioned, expect lots of weaker, … Continue reading →

especially many women, who simply try to do their best–the key, defining word being “try”. They are among the nicest, kindest, most decent, in doing for or serving others–whether or not they are ever even noticed, acknowledged, understood, appreciated, gifted or … Continue reading →

(Random quotes from Virginia Woolf’s last-published, posthumous collection of criticism) Each one rich, expansive and yet so-o concise. Each one a potential subject for a meditation, a blog entry, an article, an essay, a talk, a workshop. Quintessential Woolfisms. (from … Continue reading →

“How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world.” –Shakespeare, Hamlet Agendas, dishonesty, betrayal, manipulation, and control are all too common in our brave new modern world. It’s not surprising that one may finally … Continue reading →

“Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.” –Simone Weil, Gravity and Grouse “I have to protect myself from the toxicity of this culture.” –Kate Braverman, quoted in “From the Tropic of L.A.” “The moment … Continue reading →

Tennessee Williams’ The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone is, basically, Blanche du Bois revisited: the ‘problem’ of lonely, aging women. Karen Stone’s husband who was some 20 years older than her was more of a father-protector than a lover, so … Continue reading →

“The authentic possibilities are singing everywhere around us.”                           “This is IT. This is as good as it gets.”                                                                               “Love is a delightfully, pleasurable, irrational. excessive empathy for someone else.” “A man’s consciousness exceeds the limits and limitations of whatever physical diagnosis and … Continue reading →