Archive for December, 2011

Dec 27 2011

George and Clarence and Galy Gay

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On Christmas Day in the evening, I enjoined my parents and my sister and her husband to join me in watching It’s a Wonderful Life, for the first time, actually. I have learned from my life in the blogosphere that the film is something of a time-honored Christmas tradition for many people, but it had […]

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Dec 19 2011

International Brecht Society makes a grant to Uranium Madhouse!

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I am very pleased to announce that the International Brecht Society has provided Uranium Madhouse with a grant of $500 for our upcoming production of A Man’s A Man. We are aglow with gratitude! This is also great because the imprimatur of an organization like this one will perhaps make other institutional givers comfortable supporting […]

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Dec 17 2011

a chalkboard’s a chalkboard

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This animation was created by placing glass plates over chalk drawings and redrawing the drawings with slight variations, apparently to imitate “vaudeville chalkboard caricatures”, also known as “chalk talk”. Since there is such a vaudeville chalkboard episode in A Man’s A Man, I thought I would share. Plus there’s another BIG connection to A Man’s […]

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Dec 17 2011

tinker tailor soldier WOW

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Saw it today. Sublime. The best movie I’ve seen in YEARS. The acting is truly spectacular.

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Dec 16 2011

stone soup

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Some travellers come to a village, carrying nothing more than an empty cooking pot. Upon their arrival, the villagers are unwilling to share any of their food stores with the hungry travellers. Then the travellers go to the neck of the stream and fill the pot with water, drop a large stone in it, and […]

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Dec 16 2011

moment of Brecht 12/16/2011

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The Mask of Evil On my wall a Japanese carving hangs, A blackgold lacquered Daemon mask. Not unsympathetically I observe The marks of strain upon the veins of the forehead, showing How strenuous being evil is. –Bertolt Brecht

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Dec 16 2011

poor BB of Santa Monica

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When Bertolt Brecht fled the Nazi regime, he ended up in America for a time, in Santa Monica, to be exact, at 1063 26th St. So it’s kinda like Jenny from the block wrote a play and we’re putting it on. Pirate Jenny from the block. So lay some ducats on us. We’ll do right […]

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Dec 15 2011

what you can do for your Madhouse

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Our IndieGoGo campaign for our upcoming production of my new translation of A Man’s A Man is live! Please visit and donate, early and often!

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Dec 15 2011

the Madhouse ate the Whitehouse

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Dec 15 2011

ode to joy

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