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Keats and Yeats are on your side, but you lose
I wish to register a complaint with the universe that I had no idea that Eddie Shields—the beautiful Gaveston of the ASP's Edward II—was playing Christopher Marlowe in a local stage adaptation of Shakespeare in Love until tonight, otherwise known as too late. I know it's my own fault for not reading the arts section and I appreciate that other Boston-area directors have recognized his obvious affinity for Marlowe; it bodes well for his appearances in future. But I would have liked to be able to take advantage of this one!
I spent the afternoon with my cousins and Fox for the first time since before Arisia. It was good. Assorted links.
1. Dr. Kate Lister debunks the Victorian vibrator myth, with entertaining commentary and horrifying illustrations: "Once you have moved past the fact that the doctor and patient strongly resemble escapees from Area 51 . . ."
2. My brother and his family are planning to drive across Canada next summer. I have commended them to the stone dragon of Alberta.
3. This entire issue of poetry from Aotearoa/New Zealand is very good, but at the moment Kate Camp's "Gulls," Nina Powles' "Some titles for my childhood memoir," Tim Upperton's "The Truth about Palmerston North," and Gregory O'Brien and John Puhiatau Pule's "Song of the coral brain" and "Canticle of the hydrosphere" are especially sticking with me.
4. I feel that I should not discover people by their obituaries, but I think I need to hear the music of Coco Schumann.
5. I know people with this aesthetic: Ruth Maddison, "Women's dance, St Kilda Town Hall, Melbourne, 1985."
I spent the afternoon with my cousins and Fox for the first time since before Arisia. It was good. Assorted links.
1. Dr. Kate Lister debunks the Victorian vibrator myth, with entertaining commentary and horrifying illustrations: "Once you have moved past the fact that the doctor and patient strongly resemble escapees from Area 51 . . ."
2. My brother and his family are planning to drive across Canada next summer. I have commended them to the stone dragon of Alberta.
3. This entire issue of poetry from Aotearoa/New Zealand is very good, but at the moment Kate Camp's "Gulls," Nina Powles' "Some titles for my childhood memoir," Tim Upperton's "The Truth about Palmerston North," and Gregory O'Brien and John Puhiatau Pule's "Song of the coral brain" and "Canticle of the hydrosphere" are especially sticking with me.
4. I feel that I should not discover people by their obituaries, but I think I need to hear the music of Coco Schumann.
5. I know people with this aesthetic: Ruth Maddison, "Women's dance, St Kilda Town Hall, Melbourne, 1985."
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The vest among other things suggested it.
(I rather seriously want to see this actor as Mephistopheles now. He was a really fine Gaveston.)
There are at least two fights where someone with a real sword charges into a rehearsal and starts fighting actors who have to retaliate as best they can, but it all just looked the same.
I can see that being very difficult to parse if you can't see the difference!
I didn't even know a stage version existed, so I would love to see the post of your own about the differences between the two versions. I saw the film when it came out, and remember enjoying it, but I barely watched any movies then.