Smooth, dark and perfectly square with beveled edges, the unexpected small chunk of marble peered out of my mailbox. No address, no label, no packaging, no explanation. Just a two-inch square cube of marble. It’s moments like these, when confronted with a hitherto unimagined circumstance, that I am reminded how ripe the world is with … Continue reading
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Reality Abuse at the Dublin Castle: review for Everything Theatre
I reviewed Reality Abuse at the Dublin Castle for Everything Theatre: For those of us who best know the Dublin Castle as a place for sticky evenings of Murphy’s stout and very earnest dancing, Reality Abuse is a refreshing change of pace. This unique experience, part of the Camden Fringe, is a bit like an … Continue reading
Reality Abuse at the Dublin Castle: review for Everything Theatre
I reviewed Reality Abuse at the Dublin Castle for Everything Theatre: For those of us who best know the Dublin Castle as a place for sticky evenings of Murphy’s stout and very earnest dancing, Reality Abuse is a refreshing change of pace. This unique experience, part of the Camden Fringe, is a bit like an … Continue reading
The Opera Caped Crusader
I speak frequently and with affection about my velvet opera cape. All academics are especially fond of playing dress-up: in formal situations we wear long black robes with silk cowls, oddly-shaped sleeves, and some seriously natty headgear. You may have thought I got my PhD because I have a deep and abiding love of Learning. … Continue reading
The Tempest
I went to see The Tempest at the RSC Theatre in Stratford-Upon-Avon while I was there. This was the first performance of that particular play I’d ever seen, though I was vaguely familiar with the plot. To start with the theatre itself: what an absolutely remarkable building. The play’s staging made full use of the … Continue reading
Barry and Stuart at the Spiegeltent
London is a terrifically wonderful place to be right now. Many, many people have remarked on the transformed atmosphere in the place in the last few weeks due to the Olympics, the fabulous weather, the remaining goodwill from the Jubilee, or what-have-you. Whatever it is, London is certainly charmed at the moment. And oh, my … Continue reading
Watching and Listening
I find magic captivating. There is something about the illusion of rising beyond the mundane, the tantalizing imagined possibility of defying physics and chemistry and logic and even death that unfailingly draws me in. And it’s not just me: every seat at ‘Show and Tell’, Barry and Stuart’s show at the Bloomsbury Theatre was sold … Continue reading
Staged Magic
I went to the last performance of ‘The Duchess of Malfi’ at the Old Vic. When I entered the theatre clouds of frankincense wafted over me. What an evocative scent, one that will always remind me of trying to find calm in a turbulent time. I burned frankincense candles in Egypt when all was going … Continue reading
Magic Moments
Excerpt from Skirt.com, click the link to read the rest 0 Since I am now back in rainy London, I thought I would recount for you a little tale from my long break in Florida. Mom had saved some news clippings about the new opening of the Harry Potter part of the Universal Orlando theme … Continue reading
In a Merry Hour: Caitlin E McDonald 