The Mick, O'Brien

Double Falsehood

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:30:00 -0400

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...

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 07:36:00 -0400

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...

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:17:00 -0400

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.

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 20:33:00 -0400

Getz at rest.

Sweet night of No Cooking...

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:50:00 -0400

Sweet night of No Cooking...:

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

Everybody wins.

Language as continuum

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:31:00 -0400

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.

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:41:00 -0400

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

Spotted at the INDEPENDENT earlier this month.

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:14:00 -0400

Spotted at the INDEPENDENT earlier this month.

Shooby Taylor, the Human Horn - “Over the...

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 15:51:00 -0400

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