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Hedwig and the Angry Inch - DVD
Hedwig and the Angry Inch - Soundtrack
Hedwig and the Angry Inch - Original Cast Recording
John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask
Choose your poison. Need all the pageantry and
drag-a-rama of Hedwig? Get the DVD. Just really groove on
the music? Then get the soundtrack. Think Hollywood ruins
everything? Get the original cast recording.
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Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare
And again, the Arden edition - the only one that
matters. I think this includes Queen Mab as it appeared in Quarto 1,
and the text of Brooke's Romeus and Juliet (1562) - one of
Shakespeare's sources. And of course, 77 pages of introduction.
We're not kidding. This is the best edition
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The Alchemist and Other Plays
Ben Jonson
And the first of those other plays is, you got it,
Volpone. Though the Alchemist is good, too - if not a little
similar. Samuel Taylor Coleridge described the Alchemist as the most
perfect plot in literature ever written. But then he was high on
opium most of the time. I mean, you gotta be to come up with Kubla
Khan. Anyways, if you found that you really went for the Erudite
Bawd's brand of dark humour, check out this excellent little tome:
Volpone, Epicene (or the Silent Woman), The Alchemist,
and Bartholomew Fair. All the more "well-known" Jonsonian
plays. And this Oxford edition is fully annotated, so you can
reference the obscure works Jonson cites, the moldy historical figures he
mocks, or find out that, yes, indeed, "no pleasure but backwards" means
exactly what you think it means, you dirty little devil....
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The Misanthrope
Moliere
Martin Crimp, tr.
Whew! Get a new theater and everything goes to hell!
Haven't kept up with the BotM. But this month, we present to you
Martin Crimp's ultra-modern version of The Misanthrope. Alceste (Al)
is a playwright, Celimene (Celia) is an actress named Jennifer, and Arsinoe
(Alicia) is an acting teacher. In England. Produced in 1997 with Uma
Thurman. Still rhyming couplets, and we decided we wanted to have a
go at it ourselves. But nonetheless, good stuff. Hey, how can
you go wrong with a guy that rhymes "hypocrite" and "shit." Or
"acceptable" and "Paracetamol." (Which I'm told is a tranquilizer!)
The Misanthrope
Moliere
Richard Wilbur, tr.
Or, you can go for this much more classic and standard
version by Richard Wilbur, Pulitzer-winning translator of Moliere.
Hey, the rhyming couplets are kinda catchy, but they start to get to you a
little. Unless you can read French, this is the authoritative
version. And you know the Mob: we don't do anything the authorities
tell us to. At least willingly.
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Utten and Plumley
Reade Whinnem
Our illustrious AD, Ryan Whinnem, has a brother.
It's true! And Reade just published a children's novel! Rumor
has it that it outsold Harry Potter opening day ... on Cape Cod.
(You have to take your victories small sometimes.) And why should
you care? Well, Reade is an out-of-town Mob sympathizer. He's
designed several of our show posters, including the extravaganzas for
Midsummer and Caesar.
"Old Man Plumley is the meanest man who ever lived.
He collects bloody jars full of bugs, his pet is a wolf, and he lives in
the scariest house in town. But when Utten's friend dares him to
sneak into Plumley's home, Utten finds a lonely, grumpy old man who has no
desire to hurt anyone. Utten embarks on a magical journey through
time to find Plumley as a young boy, changing the course of Plumley's life
to save his very soul."
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Julius Caesar
William Shakespeare
Well, duh. The new Third Edition of the Arden.
What else. It's the script we're using - with cuts. And the
Arden, in our opinion, remains the most complete and authoritative guide
on the text. Let's put it this way - the script itself doesn't start
until page 155; the Dramatis Personae on page 150. The rest?
Introductory text. Fully footnoted, with notation for differences in
the source material. Can you ask for more from printed Shakespeare?
We think not. Don't go for cheap editions. Do yourself a favor
and get the only one edition that matters
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Games for Actors and Non-Actors
Augusto Boal
One day, not too long ago, this book showed up from Amazon. Ryan
had ordered it at the bequest of Mike. It has some interesting stuff.
I just skimmed it - and there was one cool looking thing called the Greek
exercise which involved moving as though weightless. But frankly, after
looking at this book, I'm afraid of what Mike's going to make us all do.
Gulp.
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The Dog of the South
Charles Portis
Werner Trieschmann, playwright of You Have to Serve Somebody:
"Favorite of all time book would be Dog of the South by obscure
Arkansas novelist, Charles Portis. Portis goes through these revivals where
he is trumpeted as America's forgotten genius and, though I'm suspect of those
kind of plaudits, it is too true. Portis is a genius and the best kind of
genius - a hilarious one. Do yourself a favor and do what you can to land
a copy of Dog of the South. The story is kind of an existential journey
to Mexico. But it's a lot better than that meager description. I haven't read
it in a while, which is a sad thing for me."
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