My countdown to Frank Cwiklik announcing his adaptation, set in an Atlantic City burlesque club starts… now.

• Experts back authenticity of “Double Falsehood” as adaption of work by Shakespeare
• Professor Hammond spent ten years finding circumstantial evidence to prove origins of play
• Five-act play described as a “romantic tragicomedy” with plot from Cervantes’ “Don Quixote”
• Original manuscripts missing, may have been destroyed in theater fire

Gonjasufi - “DedNd”

off A Sufi and a Killer, Warp 2010

Time to go make the doughnuts.

Beautiful, beautiful stars.  Like I remember the stars I saw from the Boundary Waters Canoe Area as a boy.  Which may or may not have looked like this at all, but still.

via Andrew Sullivan, who I’m loving lately…

Getz at rest.

India Place on Vanderbilt - Chicken Masala for he, Saag Panir for she.  Mint Paratha for all. 

Everybody wins.

I’m about to start rehearsing for two plays simultaneously.

One of them is Hamlet. 

The other is Ashta Wi-Nu, a new work by a grimy-fingered web monkey from Brooklyn who is my favorite playwright.  It (like him) is completely bonkers.

It would be tempting to call AW-N a play without words, but there are words aplenty - just few you’d recognize. There is also voice, and syntax and rhetoric.  And frankly, I’m finding it to be not nearly as dissimilar from what I’m working on with the Hamlet gang as I expected. 

Here’s my first chunk of dialogue from the opening scene we began working this week:

un sheza ployd no boden wends the wold;
her so abso, dipper schlippt, recarbs
for oop seizen; stip, osh in grire ice
abuillieyent, t’goze arove a moaming

And one of my early bits from Hamlet:

But who, O, who had seen the mobled queen
Run barefoot up and down, threatening the flames
With bisson rheum; a clout upon that head
Where late the diadem stood, and for a robe,
About her lank and all o’er-teemed loins,
A blanket, in the alarum of fear caught up

These worlds will be interesting to walk a-straddle…

More from (outside) the INDEPENDENT. Haha. Art.

Spotted at the INDEPENDENT earlier this month. 

Shooby Taylor, the Human Horn - “Over the Rainbow”

More like this, I think.  Yes.