Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June 2009 And now for something completely different: Sex at Ventfort Hall! I know that those venerable walls have seen plenty of hanky-panky over the past century or so, but somehow those massive great “cottages” seem as sterile and uptight as the prim and proper,…
by Gail M. Burns, July 2006 Born in Kyoto, Yuki Kato (1881-1963) was the daughter of a Samuri sword-maker, an honorable profession, but one that was on the wane in the latter part of the 19th century. Yuki and her sister were both sold to be Geishas to help support…
by Gail M. Burns, July, 2005. Down in the field behind the Founders’ Theatre at Shakespeare & Company, under a big white tent, sits the Rose Footprint Playhouse. Someday the company hopes to build an historically accurate replica of the Rose Theatre there. In the meantime the Rose Footprint serves…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, March, 2004 When I was six or seven years old, shortly after I learned to read, I became enamored of DC comics. The mock mythology of Superman, Batman, Aquaman, Green Arrow, Green Latern, etc. became enthralling to me. My parents allowed me to read them…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 1999 Generally considered to be the last play that Shakespeare wrote, “The Tempest” is neither comedy nor tragedy, romance nor history. It is a show of magic and love, revenge and forgiveness, natural and supernatural, coincidence and manipulation. Prospero’s brother Antonio has usurped him…
