Thursday, January 31, 2019
Tonto Fielding is turning King John into a rap musical. Packed with rapid-fire lyrics, shooting out at you in a firework range of styles, King John is a thrilling, contemporary, immersive stage presentation that’s a union of story, text, music, image and movement that gets under the skin and into the blood. It speaks profoundly. The characters are thwarted by historical accident and adversity (the rightful heir to the throne), making King John a pragmatic representation of political events. And, as we process our appalling new reality, questions arise: What does this mean for the undocumented? What does this mean for women? What does this mean for people of color? What does this mean for the economy, for the children, for the planet?
Today in Environmentalism —
The Viverrafaciempiscis species are making their way into the Great Lakes. Experts are intimating the invasion as “rollicking mayhem, lampooning everything from zebra mussels, habitat degradation, fluctuating water levels, algal blooms, chronic wasting disease, lead-poisoned drinking water, endangered species and other problems, as they go.”
Friday, January 18, 2019
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