Ray Bradbury, catlady

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Love these DIY projects for cat lovers! Also love Bradbury, a true #catlady. “Bradbury is the beloved, award-winning author—and MoPOP Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame inductee—of Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles. The Illustrated Man,Bradbury’s classic book of short stories, serves as the focal point of our newly-launched book club, where through a series of virtual events and activities over the next month we’ll pay …

Praise for The Victorian Ladies

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“The Victorian Ladies’ Detective Collective” rides again! The Public Theatre (Lewiston, Maine) gets a rave review from Broadway World’s Carla Maria Süllwold. “Milton has a keen ear for the cadences of the period dialogue and so slips into the conversation speeches and one-liners laden with stunning acerbic wit…” The Public Theatre‘s production of Patricia Milton‘s THE VICTORIAN LADIES DETECTIVE COLLECTIVE …

Mark Ravenhill 101

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The celebrated playwright began posting playwriting tips in September on Twitter, much to the delight of playwrights and theatregoers. These helpful and provocative notes have been posted in their entirety on The Bruntwood Prize website. Here’s just one example: #3. Characters asking questions is often the engine of a play. When writing/ rewriting see if you can frame lines as …

Jonesing for Theater

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It took me till Saturday to realize that the last live show I saw was going to be the last live show I will see for a while (a year, maybe?) Ugh. It wasn’t a very good show. Now, live theatre is its own reward, in some ways (see previous post), and there is nothing like it. With apologies to …

Memory and Trauma

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It’s a fact: 60% of men and 50% of women suffer from at least one traumatic event in their lifetime. Yet many might not describe an incident that removed their power and rendered them helpless as “traumatic.” What’s more, scientists and psychologists are beginning to study generational trauma, not personally experienced, but embedded in the body from past harms. In …