| Arkin, Clayburgh, Itzin, Woodard, et al. Set for Pacific ...
Initial casting and creative team information has been announced for the South Coast Repertory's 10th annual Pacific Playwrights Festival, May 4-6. The Festival will consist of full-length productions of Julie Marie Myatt's My Wondering Boy and David Weiner's System Wonderland, a workshop production of Kenneth Lin's Po' Boy Tango, directed by Chay Yew, and four staged readings. Adam Arkin, Jill Clayburgh, Gregory Itzin, John Vickery, and Charlayne Woodard will appear as guest artists in the staged readings. The acting company will feature Daniel Blinkoff, Michelle Duffy, Katrina Lenk, Patrick Kerr, Jeanne Sakata, Kimberly Scott, and Melissa van der Schyff. The readings will be directed by Bart DeLorenzo, Pam McKinnon, Stefan Novinski, and Octavio Solis. Complete descriptions of the staged readings follows.
Wedding In Tobago
Silver waves washed the sandy shore in the pinkish hue of evening light. The sun sailed red into the ocean where the silhouettes of small fishing crafts swayed in the gentle breeze. Above, coconut palms arched over the beach to form a natural vaulted roof. The bride and groom stood barefoot on the warm sand as the pastor read from the Songs of Solomon. The perfect setting for a romantic wedding. When Henry and Louise decided to marry in Tobago, it was their favorite vacation destination and held many happy memories. Arranging a wedding 5,000 miles away from home, though, can be a daunting prospect. So it is not surprising couples hoping to marry in the Caribbean tend to opt for the "all-inclusive package" offered by hotels, often in expensive tourist resorts. By using the internet Henry and Louise were able to arrange a wedding in a small unspoiled fishing village where there were no hotels.
// The Dynamic Center: Why People Should Care About the Future
I warned Joshua White, the lightening rod of 411mania, that I would take on his most recent column. I then backed off of my email, and he encouraged me to stick with it. With that shot of confidence, I am off to defend the notion that the future might be important, that rights are not the only determinant of value and well let's just say I had a lot of problems with White's column so a typical introductory paragraph might linger. I am just rolling up my sleeves and diving into my counter argument. White's statements will all be in italics with my responses below his text. Prelude: I will agree with White that science is not unanimous on global warming, but it should be pointed out that the weight of opinion does seem to be settling on one side. Now, we get to his really interesting question: But a different and equally interesting question than whether or not global warming is man-made is the question of why we're trying to save the earth in the first place.
The bad German
For some people, just hearing his name can almost bring on a heart attack. For others, though, he seems to have magnetic powers. Women's eyes focus on him with marvel during his public readings. In the streets of Berlin, it's not unusual to see dreamy girls enter a cafe simply because they have spotted him through the window.
Maxim Biller - novelist, short-story writer and newspaper columnist - is one of Germany's best writers. He loves to think of himself as a younger, German version of Woody Allen, with a good dose of Mephistophelian meanness. He is sharp, provocative, witty, rude and romantic. Fans of his cool, playful irony buy the Sunday edition of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung just to read his regular column, "Moral Stories," which deals, according to his own summary, "with Jews, Germans, Hitler and sex." More sensitive readers may prefer his simple, slightly melancholic prose about childhood memories and love, as in his 2004 novel "Bernsteintage" ("Days in Amber").
Satire on academia part of Aurora project
IN THE HALF-DOZEN or so performances of Oren Safdie's "Private Jokes, Public Places," the role of Margaret has always been played by M.J. Kang. And when the play opens tonight at the Aurora Theatre in Berkeley, Kang will once again take the Margaret part, and continue to explore the small piece of the academic world devoted to architecture. She plays a student appearing to make a presentation of her architectural thesis -- in this case, a design for a new public swimming facility. The young Korean-American woman is making her presentation to an all-white, all-male jury of well-regarded architects, some of whom were her teachers. They are brutal, assaulting the student verbally with a sort of predatory academic babble, which becomes hilarious to those watching, but painful to Margaret, who eventually exacts her best revenge.
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