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Go fish: Undermain Theatre’s ‘Jonah’ rich with spiritual insights

Edit The Dallas Morning News 20 Apr 2016
We all have missions. Some of us don’t know what they are. Some of us do but resist, and that’s where the trouble starts, Len Jenkin suggests in the world premiere of Jonah at Undermain Theatre ... Eliot juxtaposed contemporary angst with fragments of classical references ... Bits with Mr. Bones (an earthy Jeremy Schwartz) as a blind, Tiresias-like seer, and God (a comically irate Bruce DuBose) provide sly comic kicks ... Plan your life ... $15-$30 ... ....

2016: More of the Same

Edit CounterPunch 01 Jan 2016
On this, 2016 New Year’s Day celebration, Janus’ countenances on the recto verso fascia sculpture of the Roman god are looking bewildered, confused, angry, and apprehensive ... With a tinge of a Cassandra, a Tiresias, and a Hamlet, what follows are a few predictions for 2016.. · The U.S. Presidential campaign is going to get nastier ... All three will recycle their Islamophobia into new motifs and fears ... and European corporations ... ....

Little Oedipus and the Troika

Edit CounterPunch 28 Dec 2015
Whatever happened to Syriza? Was it a good party that came to a bad end or a bad party that came to a bad end? It’s the difference between tragedy and farce ... Thus, Greece’s sovereignty is burnt offerings ... Unlike Sophocles’ Oedipus, he has taken the priest-prophet Tiresias’s advice ... By contrast, Oedipus accuses Tiresias of treason, for it is treasonous to tell a ruler to put his self-interest before the interests of the people....

5 Reasons 'O Brother, Where Art Thou?' Is One Of The Greatest Movies In The ...

Edit Huffington Post 23 Nov 2015
O Brother, Where Are Thou? hit theatres 15 years ago, on December 22, 2000. And to this day it remains my favorite film. O Brother transcends age, tastes, and even sociopolitical leanings ... It's Ridiculously Quotable. Nearly every line in O Brother is memorable for being pithy, hilarious, or simply downright fantastic ... Some highlights. ... Helping him along the way are the Blind Seer (Tiresias), and radio station manager Mr. Lund (Homer) ... ....

Southbank Centre Announces Programme For Second BAM - Being A Man Festival (Southbank Centre Limited) ...

Edit Public Technologies 05 Nov 2015
(Source. Southbank Centre Limited) 7728bfa3-89c1-46be-a976-ebae81db73ff.pdf. SOUTHBANK CENTRE ANNOUNCES PROGRAMME FOR SECOND BAM ­ BEING A MAN FESTIVAL ... Music and comedy. ... Jihad ... Inextinguishable Fire and Tiresias - BAM will screen two films by performance artist Cassils who uses the body to comment on gender, societal norms and violence ... In Tiresias Cassils draws on the greek myth of Tiresias who spent seven years living as woman ... (noodl....

Reclaim The Sword Of Chang!

Edit Huffington Post 30 Oct 2015
Something has gone wrong with Jeb Bush. You've seen it. The uncertain posture. The way he seems to want to just die in this Vine where he is made, by off-screen tormentors, to don a hoodie. And the look in his eyes! An uncanny combination of longing, fear and resignation -- it's the look you imagine Oedipus had when he realized that Tiresias was right and that he'd screwed the pooch (a pooch that was his mom) ... W ...   ...   ... ....

Cameron University theatre students nominated for prestigious Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship (Cameron University)

Edit Public Technologies 14 Oct 2015
Three Cameron University students have been nominated for the Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship in recognition of their outstanding performances in 'The Breasts of Tiresias,' the first production ......

Oedipus review – Greeks behaving badly in a rumbling tragedy

Edit The Guardian 06 Oct 2015
3 / 5 stars. Abbey theatre, Dublin. Wayne Jordan’s production unfolds in a frightened village with a flawed leader, where everyone refuses to see the blindingly obvious. @lyngardner. “How terrible to see the truth,” says Tiresias. Indeed ... Twitter ... Peter Gowen’s Tiresias, more sorrowful grandad than mystic seer, is very refreshing, and Fiona Bell picks up on the textual hints that Jocasta knows more than she’s letting on. ....

Dublin Theatre Festival 2015: blinded by the light in an excellent ‘Oedipus’

Edit The Examiner 03 Oct 2015
In the beleaguered city of Thebes, what the Gods decree will be, no matter what men do to make it otherwise ... With a wonderful ensemble performance from Barry John O’Connor as Oedipus, Fiona Bell as Jocasta, Mark Huberman as Creon, Peter Gowen as Tiresias, Malcom Adams as The Shepherd and Ronan Leahy as The Messenger, Jordan crafts something powerfully evocative, striving for emotional directness ... ....

Review: Julian Lamb in T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land

Edit South China Morning Post 29 Sep 2015
S ... The fortissimo delivery of the pensive opening line, “April is the cruellest month”, the adoption of an angry, almost brash, tone when speaking as the blind Tiresias, and perhaps least explicably, the falsetto Lamb used to denote a female character (accompanied by limp wrists and other stereotypical gestures that ran the risk of reducing Eliot’s complex female cast to caricatures), were all rather unexpected....

Sweet Caress, by William Boyd - book review: Blurry snapshots of a life captured by ...

Edit The Independent 29 Aug 2015
William Boyd’s new heroine, Amory Clay, does love a penis. Her first lover has “a pinched bud of his thick foreskin (which) made his penis look tuberous, vegetal” ... What one might dub the Tiresias mode is strangely popular as a trope for the middle-aged male author, if novels by Sebastian Faulks, Douglas Kennedy, Ian McEwan and William Nicholson are anything to go by ... Pleasingly, she is a canny survivor, especially in a crisis ... --> ... ....

L.A. Unified looks for smoother tech operations this school year

Edit The Los Angeles Times 18 Aug 2015
Getting students into the right classroom on the first day of school is a modest goal. But it's a huge improvement over last year, when thousands of students in the Los Angeles Unified School District were left without class assignments and teachers couldn't even take roll. Officials this week are trying to right two major technology debacles ... Last year, the records system caused chaos at campuses around the district ... (Allen J ... Tiresias ... ....

Bakkhai, Almeida, review: Glorious justice is done to Orlando Gough's a capella music

Edit The Independent 31 Jul 2015
The Almeida's Greeks season kicked off with Robert Icke's bold reinvention of the Oresteia that ditched most of the conventions of ancient Attic drama ... The duality in the nature of this half-human deity – god of wine and theatre; trigger of ecstasy and horror – generates the profound ambiguities in the play ... Whishaw, too, versatilely plays a professorial Tiresias and a stricken eye-witness reporter of the horror ... --> ... ....
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