Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June 2009 “Pinter pause Pinter pause Pinter pause” – Eric Tucker in his poem/director’s note for Pinter’s Mirror Can you believe I actually tried to prepare for this review? What WAS I thinking? Preparing for Pinter. There’s a title for an absurdist play if I ever…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June 2009 “We believe that the creative impulse is essential to the human soul, and that the Arts are the most realized expression of this impulse.” – Shakespeare & Company Mission Statement I am here to tell you that you would be foolish not to…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, May 2009 One of the things I get to do in my day job as a church secretary is help bereaved families design their loved one’s memorial service bulletin. It is not unusual for them to bring me a cherished old photo from 50 years…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, May 2009 What is a fact in the context of autobiography? A fact is something that happened to me or something I experienced. It can also be something I thought happened to me, something I thought I experienced. Or, indeed, an autobiographical fact can be…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, May 2009 What is love, tis not hereafter, Present mirth, hath present laughter: What’s to come, is still unsure. In delay there lies no plenty, Then come kiss me sweet and twenty: Youth’s a stuff will not endure – William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act ii, scene…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, May 2009 I am always going to the theatre, and so when I ask a member of my family if they want to go with me, they only want two pieces of information: What and Where. Producers, Cohoes There was no further discussion, my younger…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, May 2009 In April of 1921 popular author Elizabeth von Arnim*, then 55, widowed from her first marriage, divorced from her second, and being wooed by a handsome young man 30 years her junior, rented a medieval castello at Portofino, Italy with two other women.…
by Gail M. Burns, May 2009 “This is the transformative power of theatre, based on humanity’s ever-present need to tell personal stories of survival and enlightenment.” – Tina Packer This is not a review because neither the performance of “Shirley Valentine” starring Tina Packer that I did see at Shakespeare &…
