I came out of The White Guard today, hopped on my bike and thought I had landed in 28 Days Later. I had misgivings about the Waterloo roundabout, always an insane mess of cars, bikes and other vehicles and there was — no one. I have never seen the streets of London so empty (at…
Category: plays
Review: The Real Thing
Wednesday I caught The Old Vic production of Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing, as I mentioned in a recent post. Most of you know how I am enamoured of Stoppard’s work and I had heard good things about this production. The bar was set high by the most recent production of his Arcadia, which was…
Magus: The Alan Moore Conference (Day Two)
Here’s another one of Adele’s photos: just out of shot to Alan’s left is me holding Melinda’s glass. One of these days, I’m going to remember to take a picture with them. But don’t they look sweet together? More on thee two later. I left London on the same train as I had the day…
NYC and Beckett
I headed down to the city on Saturday and the first stop was to have brunch with pal Dana from the Horror list. Dana joined the list when he was thirteen, so he made me feel ancient. Nonetheless we had a good time laughing and gossiping over our meal at Iguana. After our meal, I…
Mused in Print
I will write a recap of NYC and the play as soon as possible, but I wanted to pass along the news that Mused has made print versions of their magazine available via Lulu (ah yes, the flexibility of POD!) and of particular interest will be:Spring 2008Cover: Shades of Rock by Jill Florio Art and…
Publication: Book (A Short Play)
Mused, the literary magazine of the Bella Online site, has a new issue up today which includes my very short play (one might say sketch) entitled “Book” which is a comedy. I found it helpful to add that label after a couple of rejections. A sense of humor is not always a portable currency. I…
Leeching
There’s a somewhat ridiculous scholar in Tom Stoppard’s India Ink who says, “This is why God made writers, so the rest of us can publish.” I love that quote because it speaks to an uncomfortable tendency in my academic field (and in many others, too) to feel like a kind of leech. We loot the…
The Jetsetter Returns
Actually I returned Sunday night, but a bit later than expected due to an extended stay in Toronto. Unlike Halifax (the last place Air Canada stranded me) there were at least restaurants open and a few shops to idle at when I was too tired to read. Apparently I looked sufficiently woebegone that the guy…
Publication: Bell
My short play Bell will be appearing in the next issue of Mused, the literary magazine for the site BellaOnline. They advertise themselves as the second largest online site for women, which (perhaps somewhat randomly) makes me think of Casablanca. A table of folks comment on Rick’s high-handed attitude, i.e. refusing to drink with them:…