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Hubris, Chris Christie, and Greek Tragedy
Not just Democrats and far-right Republicans, but playwrights and screenwriters, will be jumping all over Chris Christie’s “Bridgegate” scandal. Why? Because Chris Christie is caught in a whirlpool of hubris, and the ancient Greeks tragedians have taught us how such … Continue reading
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Tagged Bridgegate, Chris Christie, Greek tragedy, hillary clinton, myth, Red State, Ron Paul, Ted Cruz, theater
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Mental Health Break: Elephant on a Trampoline
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Tagged circus, elephant, elephants, freedom, mental health break, psychology, theater, trampolines, transcendence
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“Waiting for God”: A Short YouTube Video by Santi Tafarella
Today I made my first foray onto YouTube by setting up an account at XtraNormal.com. XtraNormal.com is a FREE animated video production site where you can mash together scene and character templates to create stories. You can then download them to YouTube. It’s … Continue reading
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Tagged apocalypse, drama, eschatology, Freud, Jesus, life, philosophy, psychology, religion, the second coming, theater, waiting for godot
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Lest We Forget: In 2004 a Birmingham Theater Closed a Play Written by a WOMAN Because It Offended a Religious Community (the Sikhs)
See the original BBC report on playwright Gurpreet Bhatti’s censorship here, as well as the craven response of a Catholic archbishop (who supported the Sikh clergy in shutting her play down): Mohan Singh, a local Sikh community leader, said: “When … Continue reading
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Tagged birmingham, Catholic, censorship, Christianity, England, free speech, gurpreet bhatti, plays, religion, Sikh, the Enlightenment, theater
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“What does Marsellus Wallace look like?”: A Classic Scene from PULP FICTION in Typography
Typography is a glorious and poetic art form, and it’s done exceptionally well here:
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Tagged art, literature, movies, plays, poems, poetry, pulp fiction, samuel l. jackson, screen plays, theater, typography
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“Popcorn”: A Poem by Santi Tafarella
At dusk, above the heads of two hundred movie goers standing bored and perhaps too politely in line, two-thousand egg-shaped leaves cupping ten-thousand unbuttered white blossoms, salting in the ocean air
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Tagged film, food, movies, music, ocean, poem, poems, poetry, Santi Tafarella, Shakespeare, theater
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Getting Naked to the Classics: Euripides’s “Bakkhai” Performed in the Raw
The above photo is from Dionysus in 69, a stage play of Euripides’s Bakkhai, performed in New York City in 1968. The play garnered a good deal of public controversy for the display of nudity in the performance. Euripides’s Bakkhai is, … Continue reading
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Tagged art, birth, Dionysus, Euripides, life, literature, Nietzsche, nudity, poetry, Santi Tafarella, sex, theater
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Doubters of the World Unite: Peter Ustinov on Belief and Doubt
The British actor Peter Ustinov, who died in 2004, made this rather astute observation: Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them. The quote is taken from Jack Huberman’s The Quotable Atheist, p.306. The way I read the quote is that … Continue reading
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Tagged religion, Santi Tafarella, science, skepticism, Socrates, socratic school, St. Paul, the apostle Paul, theater, walking, walking in the shoes of others
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