Archive for April, 2009
A Mandala Moment: My Given Circumstances
What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
– T. S. Eliot
I am currently appearing in Personare-BearAmI Productions’ Now Birds Sing, from April 29 – May 3, 2009, at The Irving Greenberg Theatre Centre Studio. For more details, click here. We had our [...]
Reflections on Theatre Replacement’s Bioboxes: Choose An Unparalleled Shared Experience
Theatre Replacement’s BioBoxes combines a clever concept with impressive performances and, in doing so, it offers people an opportunity for an unparalleled shared experience (click here for details). Not only is Bioboxes entertaining, I think it affected my whole outlook on theatre, on the performing arts, and on life. Not bad for six ten-minute stories performed one-on-one inside an [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 3 so far )Theatre Replacement Bioboxes: Go See It
I don’t have the time to post proper comments but wanted to state unequivocally that anyone who can should go see Theatre Replacement’s Bioboxes. It plays until Saturday in Ottawa as part of BC Scene. Click here for details. It’s also heading to Toronto. Click here for details. My hint to maximize enjoyment: they are [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )The Great Myers-Briggs Showdown: What Are Your Results?
A little over a year ago, I stumbled across a Myers-Brigg Type Indicator [MBTI] test, took it, and was intrigued by the results. Essentially, the MBTI test is intended to measure a person’s psychological preferences for perceiving and making decisions about the world. The results of the test intrigued me because it was the first such test that seemed [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 58 so far )A Question of Fashion: How Many Winter Coats Do You Have?
I grew up in Ottawa. In Ottawa, it gets very very cold — like -30 cold. And it snows. A lot. And it does this for a long long time. Accordingly, for many months out of the year, everyone wears a big heavy “winter coat” — as I have always called it. While I was [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 20 so far )My Favorite Single Line of Song Lyric, And You?
My all-time favorite single line of song lyric? Drum solo, please.
Ta-dum!
“Beauty walks a razor’s edge, someday I’ll make it mine.”
Bob Dylan, Blood On Tracks, “Shelter From Storm”.
I haven’t a fucking clue what it means and yet somehow I totally get it. I can’t possibly explain it to you and yet I totally and truly believe [...]
Why Theater? For Beauty’s Sake, Together
When Albert Camus was asked in an interview why he worked in theater, his answer was simple: a theater is one place in the world where I am happy. I can think of no better answer to the question and, for me, the process of creating, performing, and promoting theater is a unique source of [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Why “Market Solutions”? Because “acting in accord with the independent judgments of a majority of competent persons” isn’t quite as snappy.
With respect to many of society’s problems, challenges and disagreements, I am a great believer in market solutions and, at the same time, I hate the expression, “market solutions.” I hate the expression because it is a very misleading description of the underlying mechanism at work and often obscures what an effective “market solution” actually [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )« Previous Entries
