https://lostonstage.wordpress.com/2022/03/27/script-selection-the-squishy-the-stuffy-and-the-scary/?_thumbnail_id=379&fbclid=IwAR2WCm-4ALvP1r8uadNPDosAHljt6Br9tzv0KvqP19Z2AhGzNARrPFNwXWQ Many thanks to the folks at Rosedale Community Players for giving my post some love this week! It’s kinda like scrolling through Facebook and discovering that someone is quoting you, or finding out that your photos show up on Google location searches and have been viewed a hundred thousand times. Anyway, it’s cool. ThanksContinueContinue reading “Love Among the Blogs: Lost on Stage”
Tag Archives: Detroit
Trigger Warning: Incest (Because God)
“Lot and His Daughters” by Artemisia Gentileschi (1636-38) @ By Her Hand Bible stories here, Bible stories there, Bible stories everyw- Wait, what? Smack in the middle of one of the farther-in galleries at the DIA exhibit on women artists from the early Renaissance thorugh the Enlightenment, in gigantic proportions with about a dozen differentContinueContinue reading “Trigger Warning: Incest (Because God)”
Phenomenal Woman, That’s Me
“Self-Portrait at the Easel” by Sofonisba Anguissola (1554-55) @ By Her Hand It’s true — I can’t see a portrait with this kind of raw strength and sass without recalling Maya Angelou’s soul-inspiring poetry. I think Anguissola would approve — she made a bit of a career (in all senses of the words) out ofContinueContinue reading “Phenomenal Woman, That’s Me”
Uxor Brute
“Portia Wounding Her Thigh” by Elisabetta Sirani (1664) @ By Her Hand Though the natural weakness of her body hinders her from doing what only the strength of men can perform, she has a mind as valiant and as active for the good of her country as the best of us.Brutus, speaking of Portia IContinueContinue reading “Uxor Brute”
The Risk It Takes to Blossom
“The Childish Old Woman Makes the Young Woman Laugh” by Sofonisba Anguissola (1560-64) @ By Her Hand exhibit Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.Kurt Vonnegut I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the art of stepping outsideContinueContinue reading “The Risk It Takes to Blossom”
Making Our Faces As We Go Along
“Self-Portrait at the Age of Fifty-Six” by Anna Bacherini Piattoli (1776) @ By Her Hand I want to grow old without facelifts… I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I’ve made. Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you’d never completeContinueContinue reading “Making Our Faces As We Go Along”
Where Ideas Come From
Picture if you will, a cold winter day in the Detroit area. We’re in the midst of a pandemic, vaccines still a vague concept, businesses still operating with restrictions, groceries being delivered to homes with near reckless abandon. The camera soars across the metro Detroit grid and swoops down into a nondescript suburb, then throughContinueContinue reading “Where Ideas Come From”
Watch This Space
For the first time in a long while, I put a “watch this space” teaser post onto my social media account about an upcoming theatrical production that I will be directing. And I suppose it’s only fair to warn my blogosphere connections as well, that thespian geekery, nerditude, and wonkiness is likely to interrupt myContinueContinue reading “Watch This Space”
Pulling Our Leg
“Mary Magdalene” by Orsola Maddalena Caccia (1620-30) @ By Her Hand At first, this strikes the viewer as yet another depiction of a Biblical figure at a time when that was all the rage. Then, you see her face, with a look as difficult to pin an adjective on as Mona Lisa’s smile. Then, ifContinueContinue reading “Pulling Our Leg”
Along Comes Mary
“Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy” by Artemisia Gentileschi (1620-25) @ By Her Hand Can’t we look to Mary Magdalene as simply an early church leader whose rightful place next to Christ should have been acknowledged? There are no Scriptures to place her anywhere but right next to Jesus. Even a cursory reading of the Bible showsContinueContinue reading “Along Comes Mary”
Muttering Retreats 