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or a long time she brought a whimsical incandescence to rosalind that i haven t seen since maggie smith was at stratford in the 70s bromley is a naturalistic actor but has all the gravitas of a great shakespearian from now on if she s in something i m going for a couple of years now stratford has been aiming to involve the audience more in the play and to make the play a more immersive experience actors talk to the audience before the play people sit on the stage actors talk directly to the audience at times during the play and so on this year s as you like it takes this idea to an absurd degree and it distracted from the play but i like the sentiment behind blurring the separation between fluffy musicals and shakespeare i like the idea of making the play a raucous experience as it might have been in shakespeare s day i thought the setting really worked newfoundland in the 70s it s just that i drive 30 minutes to get to stratford so i can t get drunk enough to enjoy waving a pine bough over my head every 10 minutes no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels review stratford sunday april 17 2016 the rape of brunnhilde i came to houston this weekend to see a new production of the opera siegfried by the houston grand opera it was stunning breathtaking especially the final act when brunnhilde christine goerke is awakened by siegfried jay hunter morris i have written before about my fascination with wagner s fascination with the subjugation of women musings on love and freedom in the ring cycle hail isolde it comes up again and again in the ring cycle and tristan und isolde women are forced to marry men against their will resulting in the repeated rape and slavery of the woman i don t see any social commentary in this these are tales of norse gods and celtic healer princesses not radio talk show hosts and i don t see anything of interest on the more general topic of free will this obsession with female subjugation is more in line with wagner s lesser interest in incest twins an aunt and her nephew it seems to be emerging from some moral ambiguity in wagner s psyche and as i ve written before it feels like an itch he has to keep scratching in the production i saw tonight goerke s voice was so inhumanly glorious that i lost myself in it for a while i entered a state of concentration where i absorbed everything and can remember it perfectly but at the time i had no conscious thought when i emerged i had the clearest sense that this was a woman who was desperately trying to stop a man from having sex with her and her last line in the opera as she succumbs to siegfried s sexual advances is laughter in death i don t want to do some analysis based on rereading the libretto what i m writing about is an emotional reaction in bad productions of siegfried the final act can drag terribly there must be 45 minutes of brunnhilde waking up and meeting siegfried in most productions i ve seen brunnhilde is coquettish or needs some time to make up her mind in this production she is fighting him off but i d like to see a production that dealt with the matter even more blatantly wotan has magically forced her to become the slave of any man who can break through the fire that surrounds her she fights against that appealing to siegfried to not force her when he refuses she must succumb this should be a brutal scene he should manhandle her he should against her will remove enough of her clothing to be disturbing she should become humiliated and her final acceptance should be stepford wifish or something along those lines that would make gotterdammerung make more sense brunnhilde cheated in her subjugation she knew that her nephew siegfried would be the one to find her and welcomed it so when she succumbed to loving siegfried siegfried quickly set off on a new quest leaving her alone and later was tricked into transferring the subjugation to another man who she truly loathed i don t particularly like wagner s repeated plot lines of female subjugation but i d like to see a production that handles it head on that does it justice correction this is not a new production it was first performed in 2007 2008 for the palau de les arts reina sofía in valencia spain 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels opera wagner saturday january 02 2016 viva les piratas canadienses my friend kate is currently in a 500 km boat race called the ngalawa cup in the indian ocean sailing a dugout canoe with outriggers and a single sail ngalawa is the swahili word for outrigger and this is a traditional tanzanian fishing vessel although in my memory they were smaller fitting only one person and had a simpler outrigger they were frequently partly or completely submerged with the fisherman standing to his ankles in water i would be in awe even if kate weren t in her mid 50s she s a fantastic sailor and has all sorts of training in knots navigating weather etc but this still seems impossible to me there are ten teams and three people on her team the piratas canadienses here are some links to info and updates video of the last ngalawa cup pre launch news updates kate s facebook adventurist s facebook updates by team twitter instagram update i forgot to add kate s team is asking people to make a donation to cool earth no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels aging wednesday september 16 2015 memorial for dr helen bridger ellis my mother helen ellis died this morning i am using this space to post information and will update it as i have more several people have asked me how old my mother was in the picture above she was 50 update i have posted more pictures here link update on wednesday september 23 i buried my mother s ashes in a private ceremony she has a lovely spot under a tree the marker should be installed in 6 8 weeks the location is memory gardens 2723 victoria street north breslau ontario plot 1446a here is a photo of the urn that her ashes are in it s a metal rectangle that reflects her love of art deco some interesting links obituary uw english department post with a photo of my mother receiving an award at her rollins graduation in 1949 standing next to her best friend pat meyer helen reminisces for the 50th anniversary of the uw english department sale of mother s condo listing and photos notice in memphis commercial appeal link this is the address given by william wallace ellis helen s brother and my uncle at the memorial service these are the days when birds come back a very few a bird or two to take a backward look echoing the lines of emily dickinson i came here today to remember and to honor my remarkable sister helen had a long life of giving to her family and her friends twenty years ago she purchased 64 hymnals for this church listing the name of a relative in each volume i thank you for nurturing her over the years and i especially thank you for furnishing transportation to church from her willow street apartment we were all raised in a small home on a family farm in west tennessee mary martha was born four years after helen cassandra ruth three years later william wallace in 15 months followed by gwyn watson six years later and nat bowe three years later then when helen was a senior at rollins college nancy lee was born we were surrounded by numerous aunts uncles and cousins the home was one and a half miles from teh crossroad village at capleville where the local methodist church and elementary school were of lasting importance big memphis was ten miles to the north west and the mississippi state line was four miles to the south seventy miles south in the mississippi delta tibbs the location of our grandfather s small country store to the east of tibbs in the hill country was oxford the home of the university of mississippi and william faulkner we lost our mother in 1984 and our father in 1991 helen became the matriarch of the family in absolom absolom faulkner wrote yes they lead beautiful lives women twenty pages later he wrote beautiful lives women live women do helen lead a beautiful life good night sweet prince and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday august 29 2015 in a pm character matters be wary of mulcair years ago when parliament was looking into brian mulroney s envelopes of cash from an arms dealer i followed every minute on tv i was most impressed by two mps on the committee pat martin and tom mulcair both of the ndp both were particularly focused prepared and effective when mulcair became ndp party leader i was pleased now not so much i have heard mulcair tell this little joke ndp governments always balance the budget there was one exception but he turned out to be a liberal hardy har har i have heard this joke three times and i don t own a tv anymore so mulcair must have told it about a million times it s offensive to me on several levels one is that it s a lie that the ndp has such a great history of fiscal responsibility another is that his target bob rae was much more fiscally responsible than the rest of the ontario ndp which kept hearing ka ching ka ching and went to the mattresses to oppose any compromise on civil service payrolls another is that such casual condemnation of a great statesman like rae is just icky especially since they re former colleagues it s well known that mulcair has a bad temper and can be a mean guy we hear about how hard the ndp spin doctors are working to soften his image even how his performance in the debate was affected by his attempts to repress his natural temperament this should be a red flag there is a very real chance that mulcair will be our next prime minister so there should be serious discussion about his character the last nine years have shown how much character matters in a prime minister we have suffered through nearly a decade with a pm who is an uncaring jerk and harper s mean streak has been the cause of attacks on our social safety net justice system and other things i m very much afraid that mulcair walks the same road as harper character wise that won t result in identical policies but could mean something like the following we could continue to have a too powerful too secretive pmo with a power madness that focuses too much on polls and not enough on good governance with an inability to compromise and collaborate that is paranoid and vindictive i m very afraid that mulcair does not have the right character to be a decent prime minister of canada 8 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels 2015 federal election ndp politics katrina remembered today is the 10th anniversary of hurricane katrina which struck on august 29 2005 in the days following the hurricane i copied messages off a new orleans message board and published them on this blog here are some of them aug 30 from greg henderson md thanks to all of you who have sent your notes of concern and your prayers i am writing this note on tuesday at 2pm i wanted to update all of you as to the situation here i don t know how much information you are getting but i am certain it is more than we are getting be advised that almost everything i am telling you is from direct observation or rumor from reasonable sources they are allowing limited internet access so i hope to send this dispatch today personally my family and i are fine my family is safe in jackson ms and i am now a temporary resident of the ritz carleton hotel in new orleans i figured if it was my time to go i wanted to go in a place with a good wine list in addition this hotel is in a very old building on canal street that could and did sustain little damage many of the other hotels sustained significant loss of windows and we expect that many of the guests may be evacuated here things were obviously bad yesterday but they are much worse today overnight the water arrived now canal street true to its origins is indeed a canal the first floor of all downtown buildings is underwater i have heard that charity hospital and tulane are limited in their ability to care for patients because of water ochsner is the only hospital that remains fully functional however i spoke with them today and they too are on generator and losing food and water fast the city now has no clean water no sewerage system no electricity and no real communications bodies are still being recovered floating in the floods we are worried about a cholera epidemic even the police are without effective communications we have a group of armed police here with us at the hotel that are admirably trying to exert some local law enforcement this is tough because looting is now rampant most of it is not malicious looting these are poor and desperate people with no housing and n o medical care and no food or water trying to take care of themselves and their families unfortunately the people are armed and dangerous we hear gunshots frequently most of canal street is occupied by armed looters who have a low threshold for discharging their weapons we hear gunshots frequently the looters are using makeshift boats made of pieces of styrofoam to access we are still waiting for a significant national guard presence the health care situation here has dramatically worsened overnight many people in the hotel are elderly and small children many other guests have have unusual diseases they are unfortunately we have better medical letter there are id physicians in at this hotel attending an hiv confection we have commandered the world famous french quarter bar to turn into an makeshift clinic there is a team of about 7 doctors and pa and pharmacists we anticipate that this will be the major medical facility in the central business district and french quarter our biggest adventure today was raiding the walgreens on canal under police escort the pharmacy was dark and fool of water we basically scooped the entire drug sets into gargace bags and removed them all uner police excort the looters had to be held back at gun point after a dose of prophylactic cipro i hope to be fine in all we are faring well we have set up a hospital in the the french qarter bar in the hotel and will start admitting patients today many with be from the hotel but many with not we are anticipating to dealing with multiple medical problems medications and and acute injuries infection and perhaps even cholera are anticipated major problems food and water shortages are iminent the biggest question to all of us is where is the national guard we hear jet fignters and helicopters but no real armed presence and hence the rampant looting there is no red cross and no salvation army in a sort of clichã way this is an edifying experience once is rapidly focused away from the transient and material to the bare necessities of life it has been challenging to me to learn how to be a primary care phyisican 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